davh12
Military
- Jun 19, 2010
- 4
I got a question for all of you. Why do people in the industry pay little attention to small or pass through entities with regard to helicopter design? I have a patent waiting for docketing. I presented my design concept to DARPA. They said the work outlined in my "whitepaper" preproposal" had merit, but felt the pay was not high enough for DOD to "Advance the state of the art" as they called it. It surprised me a little because DARPA had just closed a BAA proposal for a Mission Adaptive Rotor system (MAR).
But according to some, the "industry" usually pays no attention to the private sector and "small entities" such as myself. I did get a call from Bell Helicopters and they were up front with me. They would've considered looking at my design, but the guy that I spoke with in the XworkX department told me that Bell's legal department told him "hands off" because I'm still active duty army. I'm not in the army aviation. I've always been Infantry, but I have a cognitive interest in rotorcraft design and someone once told me that I could not do this, so I had to prove them wrong and do it anyway, but I truely want to see the advancement of helicopter technology. Given the start up of the Vertical Lift COnsortium (VLC) in Jan 2010 because DOD has not been happy with recent failed or unacceptable projects that fell through, you would think that the industry would look everywhere pausible for new ideas. I'm working on a small scale proof of concept prototype. is my newly created site, but it's still not finished and it may not pop on google because it's too new. You can leave comments at my site. I'm not trying to promote or anything. It is all freelance and non-profit. I was wondering what others might think. I've received some positive feed back. Tell me what you think. So far the other indutrial forums have turned their nose up to me. The Wright Brothers were not engineers, or sponsored.....yet they had an impact on the world. Why did industry lose faith in imagination simply because they believe the origin of an idea did not come from someone w/ an engineering degree? Thanx
Dave
But according to some, the "industry" usually pays no attention to the private sector and "small entities" such as myself. I did get a call from Bell Helicopters and they were up front with me. They would've considered looking at my design, but the guy that I spoke with in the XworkX department told me that Bell's legal department told him "hands off" because I'm still active duty army. I'm not in the army aviation. I've always been Infantry, but I have a cognitive interest in rotorcraft design and someone once told me that I could not do this, so I had to prove them wrong and do it anyway, but I truely want to see the advancement of helicopter technology. Given the start up of the Vertical Lift COnsortium (VLC) in Jan 2010 because DOD has not been happy with recent failed or unacceptable projects that fell through, you would think that the industry would look everywhere pausible for new ideas. I'm working on a small scale proof of concept prototype. is my newly created site, but it's still not finished and it may not pop on google because it's too new. You can leave comments at my site. I'm not trying to promote or anything. It is all freelance and non-profit. I was wondering what others might think. I've received some positive feed back. Tell me what you think. So far the other indutrial forums have turned their nose up to me. The Wright Brothers were not engineers, or sponsored.....yet they had an impact on the world. Why did industry lose faith in imagination simply because they believe the origin of an idea did not come from someone w/ an engineering degree? Thanx
Dave