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All efforts to combine the vertical flight of helicopters with the flight efficiency of winged aircraft have been unsuccessful.  This remains a major goal for man's future.

Welcome to the Future

Photo by Jason Bynum

Imagine flying non-stop from a small vertiport near your home on the west coast direct to a small vertiport near your destination in New York City.  Traveling hassle free coast to coast, point to point in half the time it takes now.  At the dawn of this new era in aviation our challenge is to do what skeptics say cannot  be done, in the next few months we plan to break  the rotorcraft Mu-1 barrier and enter the unexplored realm of extreme Mu flight.

The CarterCopter is a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft projected to cruise at 350 MPH at 45,000 feet (200 MPH at sea level). It uses a rotor for vertical takeoff and landing and a small wing for high speed cruise.  The CarterCopter offers the speed and efficiency of a fixed wing aircraft and the off-airport abilities of a helicopter, all with much less complexity than tiltrotor aircraft and other vectored thrust aircraft such as the Harrier.

So fly into the future and watch history being made.

Jeff Lewis                                                                                                                       

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