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The CW-RUNABOUT is my attempt at a VTOL PAV concept that would hopefully be cheap to produce and as easy to controll as posible while having as few components as possible.
Using a single engine to provide both thrust and directional control with an innovative double set blade system, coupled with a unique ducting system,
This design is inspired by Texas-born Vincent Justus Burnelli. Early wind tunnel and flight testing of this design showed superiority in most areas compared to the tube and wing design. With new materials and design available today, this plane could be the final word in stusatainable flight for the next 100 years.
Joe Tackett is the inventor and U.S. Patent holder of the Battle Stations concept and has been developing it since 2007.
Production is expected to begin in July, 2012.
Battle Stations is an Aerobics-based, computer automated, Martial Arts training device.
Please see the illustrations before proceeding.
This invention relates to search engines. Search engines use a lot of the available broadband radio spectrum, which contributes to sluggish performance and other system troubles. An overload of the communications system can have grave consequences: computer freezes and crashes at every level including our defense network, law enforcement agencies, and our national security efforts.
Thin Film Photovoltaic Dynamic Wind Turbine Blade
Innovation
The innovation consists of wind turbine blades that dynamically optomize peak performance of a wind turbine with the use of thin film photovoltaic technologies, solar energy and a computer controlled analysis program of wind conditions. Wind turbine blades would be constructed of light weight material with a carbon fiber covering.
A novel, simple and miniature "Adhesive Tape Dispenser“ consisting of a 4 cm cutter plate x width of a tape, flexibly mounted on a tape roll, for peeling at one end and dispensing the tape by cutting from another end.
The ABC board is an educational communication aid for children or young adults who have communication difficulties or special needs. To use you simply place a letter, number, makaton symbol or icon tile on the ABC board within the raised grid and press the talk button. The ABC board will then say what you have put down.
I have some bad news: every depiction of people in space that you have ever seen, every movie, every SF short story, is complete rubbish! Reality has shot down our dreams.
This problem jumped out at us from new data on radiation safety for humans in space, this is just in from NASA's LRO mission.
At high attitudes there are plenty of winds. My idea is use wind energy. First use is to create addition lifting force. Second use is to charge the battery of a Soaring Surveillance Device.i
Soaring Surveillance Device consists of four main parts:
1) Wing.
2) Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT).
VAWT rotor connected with electric generator.
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