The company Boeing received money to create an aircraft Phantom Swift

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The American company Boeing received funds for the construction of a promising vertical take-off and landing aircraft, which was designated the Phantom Swift. A unique aircraft in the future will be able to make a revolution in military affairs, comparable to that which the helicopter once performed. Agency for Advanced Defense Research DARPA allocates Boeing 9,4 a million dollars to the construction of a prototype demonstrator Phantom Swift. Funds are allocated in the form of a grant under the X-Plane program. In 2013, the company Boeing using 3D printing technology and rapid prototyping has already made a smaller copy of its aircraft (17% of the planned size), so the construction of a full-sized device should go quite quickly.

The grant that was received by Boeing 26 on August 2014, is already the second. IHS Jane's told reporters about this from a company spokeswoman Deborah Van Nierop. In 2013, four competitor companies that are working on the development of a promising aircraft received 130 million dollars from the US Department of Defense. It is reported that most of the work on the construction of Phantom Swift will be performed at the company's plant in Ridley Park, located in the state of Pennsylvania.

It should be noted that the program has received the designation X-Plane, was launched by the agency DARPA last year. As part of this program, it is planned to develop a new aircraft, which would be distinguished by increased flight speed and the ability to hover in the air. According to the technical assignment issued by four US companies, the cruising speed of the X-Plane device should be 556-741 km / h, and the efficiency in the hover mode should increase from traditional 60% to 75%. At the same time, aerodynamic quality when flying at cruising speed should increase from 5-6, to at least 10 units. Also, the military made strict demands on the carrying capacity of the machine. The new aircraft must easily raise to 40% of its total take-off weight (4,5-5,5 tons).


Of the four candidate companies, only Boeing was able to submit to the experts for review an already ready (albeit on the 1: 6 scale) model, which, moreover, was already tested in flight. In total, four companies are working on the creation of a promising aircraft: Sikorsky, Aurora Flight Sciences, Karem and Boeing, each of which is ready to present its solution to the military . It is reported that the stage of preliminary analysis of all presented structures will last until the end of 2015 of the year.

The “Phantom Swift” aircraft can take off and land vertically, as well as hover in the air like a normal helicopter, while possessing a very high flight speed - 550-740 km / h. According to Brian Ritter, the Boeing program manager for the creation of this aircraft, in order to meet the requirements of the technical specifications of DARPA in the project decided to use the screws installed in the ring fairings.

The aircraft Phantom Swift is equipped with two large-sized fan-lift engines that are installed inside its fuselage. These engines are used to create lift during takeoff, landing machines, as well as when hovering in the air. Horizontal thrust is created using two rotary fan motors that are installed at the ends of the wing. Thus, after taking off and speeding up in helicopter mode, large fan motors in the fuselage are shut off and closed with special flaps. Closing the engines installed in the fuselage is carried out to improve the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. After that, the device makes a flight due to the thrust of small engines and the lifting force of its wing.


It is reported that the full-size version of the Swift Phantom advanced aircraft will have a length of 13,4 meters, a width of 15,2 meters and a weight up to 5450 kg. At the same time, the device must carry a payload of at least 40% of its total mass. A unique feature of the device is the use of screws, which are located in the ring fairing - both at the ends of the rotary wing consoles and built into the fuselage. This solution improves controllability, provides the device with a high flight speed and a more efficient hovering mode.

Someone the design of the aircraft PhantomSwift may not seem quite rational, as for most of the flight lift engines are turned off and represent a "dead weight", which simply eats the scarce volume inside the fuselage of the device, and therefore reduces the possible payload. It is reported that the serial version of the device will receive lightweight and compact all-electric drives that do not require a cumbersome transmission, which partially can solve the problem with the “eaten” volume. However, at present, such technologies are not yet available, so the first full-size prototype will be obtained by the General Electric gas turbine engines CT7-8. Such engines are currently used on Sikorsky S-92 helicopters. In the long run, they will be replaced with all-electric units.

Boeing’s Phantom Swift should be a faster and more reliable alternative to existing helicopters and V-22 Osprey converters. A prospective aircraft will be able to get to a given point about 3 times faster than a regular helicopter. In manned or unmanned version, the machine will be able to deliver various cargoes to the front line, provide fire support to troops, conduct reconnaissance, and evacuate the wounded. In addition, PhantomSwift will be unique maneuverability. For example, hovering on large lifting engines installed in the fuselage, the device will be able to almost instantly make a turn on the spot, change the hull inclination, its height, and quickly pick up speed in any direction of flight. All these qualities are very important for assault aircraft, they are also particularly useful when working in difficult conditions, for example, urban development.


Since the agency DARPA did not specify, unmanned or manned aircraft they need, all companies submitted projects that suggest the possibility of working in both versions. Along with this, Ritter noted that the Boeing company considers it appropriate to give preference to the manned PhantomSwift variant, on the basis of which the company expects to create a whole family of new aircraft. At the same time, the US Department of Defense has not yet decided on the most successful project, the military has yet to choose the winning company among the four participating in this project. The flight tests of the winner’s company sample should take place approximately in the 2017 or 2018 year.

Information sources:
http://zoom.cnews.ru/rnd/news/top/boeing_postroit_letatelnyj_apparat_novogo_tipa
http://www.aviaport.ru/digest/2014/07/02/294555.html
http://vpk-news.ru/articles/20988
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  1. +6
    3 September 2014 09: 50
    it’s a direct misfortune with these storytellers ... since when did the specific power characteristics of electric motors begin to exceed those of gas turbines?
    1. +3
      3 September 2014 10: 24
      How is it unique? What kind of revolution are we talking about? Their "miracle geniuses" give out similar pearls every 3 years. The last known F-35B (modification for the Navy) with the same fan for takeoff and landing.
      They try every time and every time they get a piece of iron, not suitable for use. I think this time will be the same.
    2. 0
      3 September 2014 10: 45
      Quote: Turanchox
      it’s a direct misfortune with these storytellers ... since when did the specific power characteristics of electric motors begin to exceed those of gas turbines?
      Why not? In the presence of superconductors operating at "room" temperature and energy-intensive batteries (also already available), the load characteristics of the electric motor can vary over a very wide range.

      Batteries + power generator + extra large capacity (capacitor) will give peak load during takeoff and landing, maneuvers.
      1. +1
        3 September 2014 10: 53
        learn physics
        1. -1
          3 September 2014 21: 36
          Quote: Turanchox
          learn physics

      2. -5
        4 September 2014 17: 06
        F-35V is a real technological breakthrough.
        Ultrasonic fighter with the possibility of sustainable
        helicopter hovering and vertical take-off and landing.
        Think! A supersonic fighter that does not require airfields and runways.
        On any spot of concrete, a fuel truck can drive up to it and refuel it.
        There are limitations (you have to pay for all the good):
        1) fuel overrun when freezing 2) limited bomb
        load when hovering.
        1. Kassandra
          +5
          4 September 2014 20: 53
          a breakthrough was the Yak-141 from which this pepelats was torn.
          1. +1
            4 September 2014 22: 40
            I agree with you that the Yak-141 was the first, and the Americans bought a license for it
            construction. Just at the time of the Yak-141 aircraft hovering and the transition from vertical
            flight to the usual was on manual control and depended entirely on the pilot's skill.
            A feature of the F-35V is a fully computerized hover and transitions
            from stillness to speed. The pilot only gives the command, and comp. monitors sustainability.
            1. Kassandra
              0
              5 September 2014 00: 59
              Everything was completely licked, and nothing new was added from the technologies. AMS "Luna" also softly landed on its tail.
              no license, like the English on the AV-8B, was bought
              vertically, the United States themselves did not advance further than Bell XV-14, you can google what enta is a pterodactyl and what "characteristics" it has Yes
              By the way, helicopter pilots still fly without a computer ... on the same Chinooks.
              1. +1
                5 September 2014 17: 47
                For "Cassandra":
                "Lockheed Martin, for a short time cooperated with the Yakovlev Design Bureau. According to some reports, in 1995, with the permission of the Russian government, the Yakovlevites sold to the Americans all the documentation on the Yak-38 and Yak-141"
                The Americans officially bought the documentation.
                1. Kassandra
                  +1
                  6 September 2014 00: 24
                  in 1992. "Short time" is 18 months. During this time, for 500 thousand dollars, all the technology was transferred to the Americans and consulting was carried out on it. It's just that a folder with classified documents is transmitted by a spy in 5 seconds. In addition, they were given weight distribution for the F35, and all other key points - even having received the technology to slightly change the glider, they themselves did not have enough brains.
                  Officially, the documentation is not bought. Officially purchased a license. And money is paid for the use of patents (as for example, the USSR paid all the way for the suspension of Christie in some of his tanks).
                  Before the kidalov with the yak, the Americans decided to make a new harrier together with the British, having joined them in the fake consortium, then they received all the technology according to Harrier-2 and they were thrown out of the consortium crying
                  The American Harrier differs from the British in just an enlarged wing. But in the case of the Harrier, the British managed to defend at least the license rights to its engine.
                  In the case of Yak, the Americans patented his "know-how" in general.
                  1. Kir
                    0
                    6 September 2014 02: 29
                    Well, here it is also necessary to remind the fact that the delay with the F-35 just happened due to the termination of "cooperation", otherwise it would have been in service for a long time. And by the way, it's probably not superfluous to remind that these people really believe in the "computer god", yes, they somehow said that they say they can make even an ax fly, having calculated everything on a computer, well, they made it, they saw fu-117 and b- 2 those-more irons !!!
                    1. Kassandra
                      0
                      7 September 2014 03: 37
                      no, they cannot: fu-117 and b-2 are not computer
                      computer only su-27 hi
                      and those two are actually very primitive devices, especially the first of them.
                      if in doubt, the hang gliders fly without a computer.
                      1. Kir
                        0
                        7 September 2014 15: 35
                        I called the computer ....... that with minimal purges.
                      2. Kassandra
                        0
                        10 September 2014 11: 13
                        the B-2 has worse aerodynamics, the faceted F-117 and even more so.
                      3. Kir
                        0
                        10 September 2014 18: 04
                        That’s the question, and by the way, at one time they wrote that if the f-117 had a coating with the ability to disperse an even larger spectrum of waves, then this squalor could not tear itself off from the Earth at all.
                      4. Kassandra
                        -1
                        11 September 2014 01: 41
                        Not about that. F / A-117 flew without a computer. Without a computer, on the contrary, the Su-27 will not be able to fly.
          2. 0
            6 September 2014 19: 59
            Find the video XVJ-101 and this is 1961-63, and it went: X1-21 MI-30 VBU 23 SC-1 PD-56 P1127 P 1154 Mirage IIIV - Balzac MV-22 XV-3 the famous Harrier who climbed gooraz before Yak
            1. Kassandra
              0
              7 September 2014 03: 23
              VJ reached only M = 1,02 then, with the same success, the MiG-15 can be called a supersonic aircraft. Failure or damage in battle of any of his six engines and he is lost,
              A mirage soared vertically to supersonic could no longer
              The famous Harrier subsonic, it (Kestrel) brought to mind a year later, the Yak-36, and actually the harrier was much later.
            2. Fox hound
              0
              12 December 2014 15: 40
              and I also like the project "Entwiklungsried Süd" among the Germans. quite a promising topic ...
        2. 0
          5 September 2014 00: 07
          Quote: voyaka uh
          A supersonic fighter that does not require airfields and runways.

          Well, actually, then you’ll refuel it, where is the thread on the patch. And how will you conduct its maintenance outside the aerodrome infrastructure. To replenish the same ammunition. Therefore, Considering this expensive aircraft outside the airfield is a dubious occupation.
          1. Kassandra
            0
            5 September 2014 01: 07
            as well as refuel.

            how are the same things done with ... helicopters? Or do they fly only from airfields?
            1. +1
              5 September 2014 17: 41
              I completely agree with you. Those. service and loading of ammunition
              can be carried out at any place where the F-35V can land and take off.
              And this is not a helicopter, note, but a supersonic fighter-bomber ....
              Yak-141 was the first in vertical take-off, still in the ranks of the English
              Harrier, where the vertical is on manual control.
              I mean, the helicopter convertiplane just does not seem to me a breakthrough.
              This is just a new generation high-speed helicopter. But the jet fighter
              tiltrotor is really the future.
              1. Kir
                0
                5 September 2014 19: 01
                The future belongs to systems with a minimum set of units, because it has long been known that the more components are included, the more capricious the technique is, which means on the one hand it requires Qualified service, and on the other, it can crack into the most inappropriate! And then for such ... an appropriate enemy is needed, otherwise the "shell" will become much more expensive than the target !!!
                1. +1
                  5 September 2014 22: 26
                  I categorically cannot agree with you. For example, take almost
                  Any average Japanese car assembly. It does not break for years
                  and requires minimal inspection and replacement of parts and oils. Although there
                  hundreds of thousands of parts.
                  If assemblies and blocks of quality parts are assembled qualitatively, then
                  their total number can reach at least millions - and the whole system will not
                  break.
                  A primitive cart of 10 parts does not get out of the repair.
                  1. Kir
                    0
                    6 September 2014 02: 17
                    Well, it's not quite right, here you just transfer everything to quality, well then let's compare the qualitatively assembled, let's say things, but different in terms of their saturation with details, at least in the repair "on the knees" the leadership will remain with the "primitive", then look how many cars of the same brands but different years of release were running. And by the way, the saturation actually leads to the limit of the size of the "nodes" less than which, unless they discover, they will not create Real New Revolutionary Materials and Technologies, it is simply Impossible to make a product that meets a certain "vitality" without compromise on the requirements for this product! And by the way, as long as I remember, the design of the f-35 can withstand less overload than its "older brother" - the f-22, and I remember it just because of the "fan".
                    Well, this is a retreat, but in fact the future, the question is rather how quickly it will come for the movers, generally without, or with a minimum of moving parts, something related to physical fields.
              2. 0
                13 September 2014 23: 49
                Quote: voyaka uh
                But the jet fighter
                tiltrotor is really the future.

                It is already nearby.
                The future is generally "gravitational", scientists are on the verge of materialization of gravitational waves, they recently groped for something in the depths of space.
        3. 0
          6 September 2014 19: 50
          You just show it or yourself. This nonsense with built-in engines (Mirage-Balzac, Yak 141 and F35V and others like them is not better) The only practical machine that is already manufactured and flies ВА-609 of the Bell company.
          1. Kassandra
            0
            7 September 2014 03: 15
            no, it's you anything just to get out on the yak ...
            Is this your BA-609 supersonic chtoli?
            maybe a subsonic Harrier with "built-in engine" is something bad?
  2. Bowless
    +6
    3 September 2014 10: 01
    A car for Hollywood, not for life.
    1. MBA78
      +3
      4 September 2014 16: 08
      too many fans ... raven repeller
  3. +4
    3 September 2014 10: 01
    The Americans are haunted by aircraft from the "Star Wars" series - they fly over everyone, but here they are not!
    How is it that the FBI sheep did not take the directors to investigate - where is the documentation for the machines?
    1. +4
      3 September 2014 10: 40
      From the Terminator, I would say. As soon as I read that it will automatically fly.
  4. -1
    3 September 2014 10: 04
    As they say, God forbid, to take off ... but not in cost, but in the air =))) wink
  5. +2
    3 September 2014 10: 14
    Senator John McCain:
    The V-22 looks great in the sky ... when it’s not idle for repairs.

    I think this will be the same.
  6. +3
    3 September 2014 10: 20
    wait and see what comes of it ...
  7. +3
    3 September 2014 10: 23
    And where will the payload be located
  8. +2
    3 September 2014 11: 00
    Quote: Turanchox
    it’s a direct misfortune with these storytellers ... since when did the specific power characteristics of electric motors begin to exceed those of gas turbines?


    Well, you know, civilization does not stand still, as the sages say - the road will be overpowered ...
  9. +2
    3 September 2014 11: 04
    "... the cruising speed of the aircraft created under the X-Plane program should be 556-741 km / h, and the efficiency in the hover mode should increase from the traditional 60% to 75%. At the same time, the aerodynamic quality when flying at cruising speed should increase from 5-6 to at least 10 units. The military also imposed stringent requirements on the carrying capacity of the machine. A new aircraft should easily raise up to 40% of its total take-off weight (4,5-5,5 tons) ..."A bold claim to win, only somewhere deep in the head it seems that everything will end on an experimental model, and the money will simply be sawed. Moreover, Boeing has a very great experience of sawing the money of American taxpayers! And by the way, with the aerodynamic quality of something completely not so, if people taught aerodynamics poorly, or they just blurted out without thinking ... Or maybe NASA has different formulas and other Newton's laws? Who knows ... who knows ... wink
    1. FID
      +3
      3 September 2014 12: 44
      Quote: nvn_co
      Yes, by the way, with aerodynamic quality, something is completely wrong, people only taught aerodynamics poorly, or they simply blurted out without thinking ... Or maybe NASA has other formulas and other Newton's laws? Who knows who knows...

      And what is wrong with aerodynamic quality? It’s quite a decent, streamlined shape, decent lift ... Yes, and the aerodynamic quality is not very large ... The shuttle has it about 1, the Buran, if I remember correctly - 1-1,5.
      1. Kassandra
        +1
        5 September 2014 02: 14
        Shuttle 1,5 F / A-117 1,7
  10. +2
    3 September 2014 11: 19
    Well, real Hollywood, the movie Avatar, science fiction writers nervously smoking on the sidelines.
  11. slavbag
    0
    3 September 2014 11: 36
    The road will be overcome by a walker If only to criticize, then not when he will create. So well done that they try and do. So the future becomes the present. And they do not waste technology in vain.
    1. MBA78
      0
      4 September 2014 16: 15
      let them come up with something sensible coming out of this trash, maybe copy
  12. +2
    3 September 2014 12: 07
    I like this. Better than traditional tiltrotopes with relatively large propellers

    And in terms of aerodynamics, I think, more successful pieces like the Israeli Panther IAI

  13. +1
    3 September 2014 13: 30
    I don’t know how the characteristics are there, but the appearance is pretty fellow
  14. +1
    3 September 2014 14: 43
    maholet symbiosis of dragonfly and airplane
  15. +1
    3 September 2014 17: 11
    For me it is important that people think and plow. Let it go nowhere as the final product, but ... during the work they can come up with a fundamentally new unit.
  16. 0
    3 September 2014 23: 05
    The American tiltrotor "Osprey" is an excellent machine, nothing of the kind has yet been made in Russia.
    "Phantom Swift", judging by the content of the article, is interesting and in many respects unique, and, probably, the main thing is not its flight performance, but how they will be achieved. Even if the project is implemented, neither the helicopter nor the tiltrotor over the battlefield can compete with the aircraft of direct support of the troops. From the versatility of these machines will go to their narrow specialization. Only then it will become clear what is more important, speed up to 800 km / h and the possibility of hovering or carrying capacity (not 4-5 tons, but not less than 8-12 tons), a flight range of about 2 thousand and vertical landing on unpaved landing sites.
    1. Kassandra
      +1
      4 September 2014 02: 10
      made in Russia back in 1946
      in Canada in the 60s
      just America (like aircraft carriers) is possible, but not for others.
  17. 555somebody555
    +2
    3 September 2014 23: 44
    Be that as it may, such things attract attention, and it’s easier to knock out grandmas under them. By analogy with the Bison, like nafig you don’t need such a healthy hovercraft, but it's cool that it is.
  18. 0
    4 September 2014 14: 38
    if it really is faster and comparable in carrying capacity and price ... then such a scheme will displace helicopters.

    although the figures given may be nonsense. will see
    1. MBA78
      +2
      4 September 2014 16: 20
      this type of apparatus ... the survivability is small !!! in case of failure from any "fan" chosen by you
  19. Kir
    0
    4 September 2014 19: 39
    You can't say anything ......., but I'm not the only one interested in where the storytellers will be able to accommodate 1800-2200kg ?, only one real volume is seen, this is the space between the fans, according to an approximate estimate it is somewhere 2x2x1m, well maximum 2.5x2x1.2 and what then will the cargo be? And with regards to the exclamations about the breakthrough, I am more than sure that the "rake" was clearly not yesterday's but the day before yesterday, and even in .... Where is the mulberry stele technology! More importantly, there is something else that our materials, such as carbon fiber, etc., etc.
  20. Fast
    +1
    5 September 2014 23: 41
    The envy of our helicopters haunts them, so they invent a device from the realm of fantasy, but it turns out a vacuum cleaner for pumping money out of the budget. It will end in nothing.
    1. Kir
      0
      6 September 2014 02: 21
      Well, at least in terms of body and plumage, oh, how not the fact that science fiction will not come from the Moscow Technical University or Moscow Aviation Institute, at least our civilians are counted.
  21. 0
    6 September 2014 18: 38
    For a long time in the head revolved the design of the engine for the aircraft. I do not pretend to the championship,
    if you rummage, it’s probably already been suggested by someone
    Just check it out. It occurred to me because of compliance: one third - one third
    About a third of the power of the combusted fuel of a turbojet engine is spent on air intake - rotation of a turbocompressor.
    On the other hand, magneto-dynamic generators have not found application due to low efficiency
    conversion of gas jet into electric energy (exactly the same 30%)
    In the aircraft, these shortcomings of the turbojet engine and the turbojet engine will complement each other: the MHD jet will create traction and generate electricity for the air compressor motor
    burning this very jet.

    The advantage will be:

    1 gas temperature is not limited to the material of the turbine blades, which is already NO
    , and the increase in gas temperature is the main problem of turbojet engines
    2 does not need a shaft from the turbine to the compressor, but only the wiring
    3, compressors and combustion chambers can be located where it is beneficial for layout, rather than
    along one axis, as now in turbojet engine
    the disadvantages, as in any MDG, are the material of the electric stripper plates and the weight of the electromagnets. Well, the plates can be graphite (and replaceable consumables), because
    graphite gas rudders work in rocket nozzles

    Maybe such a "monster" in some category of aggregate capacities (small or vice versa large) and competes with the existing EC for aircraft.
  22. 0
    5 June 2017 16: 17
    Funny dumb
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