736 is right about one thing - the pitch links are missing. This photo must have been taken during build-up or maintenance. Antitorque forces are provided by rudders mounted behind the fan. They must not have been added yet when this pic was taken. Turn them to the side, they deflect the flow and provide a sideward thrust that replaces the tail rotor (inefficiently, I might add.)
Dan H.
It makes me want to put a turbofan in the cabin of a Chinook.
-Chris
Dan and 736,
Here’s you a pic of the X-49 with pitch change links;
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Does this one look a little more airworthy?
Ray
CT,
I was looking at that pic and it doesn’t look like the rotating swashplate is there either!
Ah, much gooder! But you got to wonder, a heavily modded single rotor program, on a Sikorsky, run by the king of tandem rotors, Piasecki. (I bet the test pilots are falling all over each other to get to fly that thing though.)[(-D]
Actually, it doest the heart good to see that there is still some prototype/proof of concept work going on in the helicopter world. [8-]
Regards,
Chuck