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Carter Aviation Copter

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  1. brian eiland

    brian eiland Senior Member

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    Carter Aviation Technologies is a research and development company, pioneering new aviation concepts. Our primary focus is the slowed-rotor compound aircraft, a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that uses the rotor for takeoff and landing, and a small, efficient wing for high speed flight, up to 500 mph, all with much less complexity than a tilt-rotor or other vectored thrust vehicle. We successfully demonstrated the slowed rotor concept with the CarterCopter Technology Demonstrator (CCTD), the first and only aircraft to reach mu-1

    http://www.cartercopters.com/highlight_video.html

    http://www.cartercopters.com/index.html

    ...and check out this single place small gyro verson
    http://www.cartercopters.com/ctd-t.html

    CONCEPTS
    http://www.cartercopters.com/concepts.html