Introducing the Torque Stabilized Vertical Lifting System
"A Paradigm Shift In The Making"
US Patent Pending "The VW of VTOL"
US Patent Pending "The VW of VTOL"
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Humble Beginnings - Original Prototype, Circa June, 2002
Over the years we have refined the TSVLS concept to include a single lift rotor located within a shroud and over almost vertical airfoils. The applications of which are numerous, and include vtol hobby craft, unmanned aerial vehicles, aerial cranes, personal aerial vehicles, 4 to 6 passenger family flyers for sport, local, and regional travel, and commercial and industrial lifting and transportation.
It is now a modular torque stabilized, lifting system with some unique qualities. It has no moving parts, is absolutely dependable, remains in torque balance under changing power and load conditions, increases lift by 20 to 50%, has no exposed rotor blades, can travel 48 mph horizontally without unbalancing lift, and requires no maintenence.
Where a helicopter tail rotor torque control system uses up to 30% of the total power of the craft, the TSVLS controlls the torque, creating rotational stability, using 0% zero of the crafts power.
We are poised to build the first BodyCopter prototype for demonstration at Oshkosh 2012, depending upon funding.
TSVLS.com, LLC
202 Rosemary
Lonoke, AR 72086
501-993-4384
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Below is a drawing of a device representing a paradigm shift in current vtol technology. What it is not is a coleopter, a Hiller platform, a pam 100, a solo trek, a mollar flying car, anything found at www.helis.com, nor at www.roadabletimes.com, nor is it Leishman's work, nor an I-Star, nor counter rotating, nor contra rotating, nor using a tail rotor, nor a procopter, nor a flying jeep, nor anything else you have ever seen. The TSVLS operates on different principles than any thing else in use to counter the torque of a single lift rotor.
The TSVLS uses fixed airfoils (wings) located radially beneath a rotating lift rotor, both located within a short vertical duct, using applied torque to lift a load, to generate lateral lift in an anti torque rotational direction using a lift rotor's down draft. The duct causes the anti torque and the torque to remain in balance during changing load weights and power settings.
I am not talking about vectoring thrust, or using deflecting vanes or stators. We use, asymmetrical airfoils, wings, situated almost vertical and located radially beneath a lift rotor, within a vertical duct. It works by utilizing formerly wasted, lift destroying swirl energy, present beneath a spinning rotor to generate anti torque lateral lift.
The result is a module consisting of a lift rotor, duct and airfoils in which the lift rotor lifts more using the same amount of power, than it can by itself, while controlling 100% of the torque with anti torque.
The TSVLS makes possible the long awaited flying car, not a land plane monstrocity that needs an airport to take off and land, but a vertical take off and landing (vtol) 4 to 6 passenger vehicle for landing in and taking off from your driveway.
It also makes possible everything from safe, simple to fly, indoor vtol toys that are less complicated than any other, therefore less expensive, to pilot less radio controlled aerial cranes, to PAVs, to UAVs, to a 4 to 6 passenger Family Flyer, to commercial and industrial heavy lifting with no exposed rotors.
It is the VW of VTOL. (cheap to purchase and maintain; slow, safe, dependable)
I am not talking about vectoring thrust, or using deflecting vanes or stators. We use, asymmetrical airfoils, wings, situated almost vertical and located radially beneath a lift rotor, within a vertical duct. It works by utilizing formerly wasted, lift destroying swirl energy, present beneath a spinning rotor to generate anti torque lateral lift.
The result is a module consisting of a lift rotor, duct and airfoils in which the lift rotor lifts more using the same amount of power, than it can by itself, while controlling 100% of the torque with anti torque.
The TSVLS makes possible the long awaited flying car, not a land plane monstrocity that needs an airport to take off and land, but a vertical take off and landing (vtol) 4 to 6 passenger vehicle for landing in and taking off from your driveway.
It also makes possible everything from safe, simple to fly, indoor vtol toys that are less complicated than any other, therefore less expensive, to pilot less radio controlled aerial cranes, to PAVs, to UAVs, to a 4 to 6 passenger Family Flyer, to commercial and industrial heavy lifting with no exposed rotors.
It is the VW of VTOL. (cheap to purchase and maintain; slow, safe, dependable)
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You Can Participate In The Commercialization of the TSVLS.
Contact me if you are interested in building a life sized version of one of the crafts below with my technical assistance. All I would require is that you demonstrate it or allow me to demonstrate it at Oshkosh July 23 -29, 2012. I can be reached at my email address bodycopter@yahoo.com My name is Charles Medlock. The red one represents a PAV (personal aerial vehicle) to be built for $16,800 and the green one represents a family flyer, a 4 to 6 passenger craft to be built for about $40,000.
New Testing in the Works:
The prototypes, below, will be tethered to light weight, plastic turntables and demonstrate their ability to stabilized ratationally while in flight and move clockwise and counter clockwise. This should be definitive proof anyone can see could be used on larger crafts. Even though they are fitted with stabilization units, I am unable to calibrate them and fly them in free flight safely. Please contact me if you are skilled and would like to help with that. This portable demonstration will be in Oshkosh 2012 if possible.
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You Can Participate In The Commercialization of the TSVLS.
Contact me if you are interested in building a life sized version of one of the crafts below with my technical assistance. All I would require is that you demonstrate it or allow me to demonstrate it at Oshkosh July 23 -29, 2012. I can be reached at my email address bodycopter@yahoo.com My name is Charles Medlock. The red one represents a PAV (personal aerial vehicle) to be built for $16,800 and the green one represents a family flyer, a 4 to 6 passenger craft to be built for about $40,000.
New Testing in the Works:
The prototypes, below, will be tethered to light weight, plastic turntables and demonstrate their ability to stabilized ratationally while in flight and move clockwise and counter clockwise. This should be definitive proof anyone can see could be used on larger crafts. Even though they are fitted with stabilization units, I am unable to calibrate them and fly them in free flight safely. Please contact me if you are skilled and would like to help with that. This portable demonstration will be in Oshkosh 2012 if possible.
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Click the link below to watch early, tethered, MZ34BodyCopter Testing and Static, multi speed Box Fan Testing Videos. You will notice the MZ34BC is unstable. This is because there is no weight below it, like there would be if a pilot were aboard.
http://www.video.me/SearchAll.aspx?ci=22825&q=arbroker
Dr. Saberi at Advanced Rotor Craft Technology in California did preliminary computer analysis with favorable results. Dr. Khan at the Tuskegee Institute contributed to our presentation at the 2010 International Power Lift Conference in Philly.
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Below is the abstract reviewed by and chosen by qualified, authoritative, academics for presentation at the Conference in Philadelphia.
Call for Papers
2010 International Powered Lift Conference:
A New Decade in V/STOL Flight
Torque Stabilized Vertical Lifting System (TSVLS)
Abstract – by Charles Medlock
Classically trained engineers have been left with the impression it is impossible to
control 100% of the torque generated by a single lift rotor, using only the
downdraft, within the same diameter as the lift rotor, because 100% of the torque
minus 100% of the torque would leave no useable downdraft or zero lift.
This illusion has stymied the development of a torque control system with many
potential applications.
The TSVLS solves the problem by locating a lift rotor over vertical airfoils arrayed
within a shroud to create “horizontal lift” in an anti torque direction. Our testing
shows 100% of the torque can be controlled, balanced, with anti torque forces, even
while the airfoils are at a low angle of attack.
Our testing also shows the torque remains in balance, except for minor trim
adjustments, even when power and load is increased and decreased, because as
power is increased, the downdraft is increased and the anti torque forces are
increased. The torque control is built into the TSVLS module, making it absolutely
dependable.
Our thought challenge was to visualize how man could take off and land from his
driveway and fly just above treetop with the least amount of hardware. The TSVLS
is our solution to that challenge.
The results of that thought challenge has lead us to believe the TSVLS is the
cheapest, safest, simplest, absolutely dependable way to accomplish personal vertical
flight. The TSVLS could be used in UAVs, as a defensive military platform, to
create a 4 to 6 passenger VTOL family flyer, a 2 seat flyer, as an indoor Radio
Controlled hobby craft, and in commercial and industrial lifting.
We believe the TSVLS will prove to use less power to control torque than any other
method currently employed, whether it be a tail rotor, contra rotating props, or
counter rotating props. The TSVLS increases lift/thrust by up to 40% because the
lift rotor is located within a type “B” shroud. Airfoils have been shown to create up
to 30 times the drag they create. These facts indicate the TSVLS will operate at
over 100% of the lift a rotor can produce without it, while controlling 100% of the
torque generated by a single lift rotor.
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Added 4/13/12
Caution: Do not read further until you are able to think past the current paradigm that vtol takes, long, free air rotor blades, transmissions, multiple drive shafts, massive horse power, high technology, tip jets, propcopters, tail rotors, contra rotating rotors, counter rotating rotors, computer programming, professional skill, years of work and training, airports, hangers, skilled pilots, a lot of free space, a lot of money etc.
When you can accept the new paradigm of NO MOVING PARTS, you may be able to receive the vision, below.
(For those of you who give this some serious thought, you will wonder what horizontal movement will do to the the generation of torque control lateral lift within a vertical duct. Answer: Penn State University gave results of testing a double duct system that allows horizontal travel up to 48 mph with little unbalanced air flow through a vertical duct at the 2010 International Power Lift Conference.)
(The VW of VTOL, the tsvls system is strictly for low, just above treetop, slow, 50 mph or less, safe, torque control built into the structure of the module, vtol flight.)
(For those of you who actually consider the idea of average people flying just above treetop at 50mph to work, school, and pleasure, you are bound to think it would use more fuel. But, the fact if you work in Searcy, AR and live in Lonoke, even though it looks like a pretty straight shot, its 37 by road and 20 by air. It would take 25 minutes by air and 45 by car.)
GPS guidance will take you straight to your destination, no stops, no tire wear, no collisions, no getting stuck in traffic or the mud and around any obstacles.
You can live on the highest mountain or the lowest valley, reach the most remote places on the planet and land and take off in any 10' clearing.
Inflate floats on the bottom and stop, land on the lake, for a little fishing on the way home.
In the highly unlikely evet of an emergency need to land, your electric DC starter motor will automatically engage with emergency power and provide time to pick a landing spot and land safely.
Sizes, uses and configurations under consideration
Configurations
Lift rotor on top of load
Lift rotor below load
Lift rotor below load, steering rotor above load
Sizes
Toys - Radio Controlled Giant Scale Craft - Radio Controlled Aerial Crane - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Personal Aerial Vehicle - Flying Car - Commercial/Industrial Lifting Without Pilots or Airports
A Few Obvious Uses
Forest and Crop Inspection - Search and Rescue - Boarder Patrol - Sport, Local, Regional Transportation -Living on the Highest Mountain or The Deepest Valley - Supplies for Remote Locations - Mobility for the Handicapped - Disaster Evacuation - Exploration - Sight Seeing - Hunting - Fishing - 50,000 Fewer Traffic Deaths in the US Alone - Shorter Travel Time - Safe - Low Cost - Crowd Control - Military Defensive and Offensive, Urban, Jungle, and Remote Outpost Crafts - Bridge and infrastructure inspection
Click the link below to watch early, tethered, MZ34BodyCopter Testing and Static, multi speed Box Fan Testing Videos. You will notice the MZ34BC is unstable. This is because there is no weight below it, like there would be if a pilot were aboard.
http://www.video.me/SearchAll.aspx?ci=22825&q=arbroker
Dr. Saberi at Advanced Rotor Craft Technology in California did preliminary computer analysis with favorable results. Dr. Khan at the Tuskegee Institute contributed to our presentation at the 2010 International Power Lift Conference in Philly.
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Below is the abstract reviewed by and chosen by qualified, authoritative, academics for presentation at the Conference in Philadelphia.
Call for Papers
2010 International Powered Lift Conference:
A New Decade in V/STOL Flight
Torque Stabilized Vertical Lifting System (TSVLS)
Abstract – by Charles Medlock
Classically trained engineers have been left with the impression it is impossible to
control 100% of the torque generated by a single lift rotor, using only the
downdraft, within the same diameter as the lift rotor, because 100% of the torque
minus 100% of the torque would leave no useable downdraft or zero lift.
This illusion has stymied the development of a torque control system with many
potential applications.
The TSVLS solves the problem by locating a lift rotor over vertical airfoils arrayed
within a shroud to create “horizontal lift” in an anti torque direction. Our testing
shows 100% of the torque can be controlled, balanced, with anti torque forces, even
while the airfoils are at a low angle of attack.
Our testing also shows the torque remains in balance, except for minor trim
adjustments, even when power and load is increased and decreased, because as
power is increased, the downdraft is increased and the anti torque forces are
increased. The torque control is built into the TSVLS module, making it absolutely
dependable.
Our thought challenge was to visualize how man could take off and land from his
driveway and fly just above treetop with the least amount of hardware. The TSVLS
is our solution to that challenge.
The results of that thought challenge has lead us to believe the TSVLS is the
cheapest, safest, simplest, absolutely dependable way to accomplish personal vertical
flight. The TSVLS could be used in UAVs, as a defensive military platform, to
create a 4 to 6 passenger VTOL family flyer, a 2 seat flyer, as an indoor Radio
Controlled hobby craft, and in commercial and industrial lifting.
We believe the TSVLS will prove to use less power to control torque than any other
method currently employed, whether it be a tail rotor, contra rotating props, or
counter rotating props. The TSVLS increases lift/thrust by up to 40% because the
lift rotor is located within a type “B” shroud. Airfoils have been shown to create up
to 30 times the drag they create. These facts indicate the TSVLS will operate at
over 100% of the lift a rotor can produce without it, while controlling 100% of the
torque generated by a single lift rotor.
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Added 4/13/12
Caution: Do not read further until you are able to think past the current paradigm that vtol takes, long, free air rotor blades, transmissions, multiple drive shafts, massive horse power, high technology, tip jets, propcopters, tail rotors, contra rotating rotors, counter rotating rotors, computer programming, professional skill, years of work and training, airports, hangers, skilled pilots, a lot of free space, a lot of money etc.
When you can accept the new paradigm of NO MOVING PARTS, you may be able to receive the vision, below.
(For those of you who give this some serious thought, you will wonder what horizontal movement will do to the the generation of torque control lateral lift within a vertical duct. Answer: Penn State University gave results of testing a double duct system that allows horizontal travel up to 48 mph with little unbalanced air flow through a vertical duct at the 2010 International Power Lift Conference.)
(The VW of VTOL, the tsvls system is strictly for low, just above treetop, slow, 50 mph or less, safe, torque control built into the structure of the module, vtol flight.)
(For those of you who actually consider the idea of average people flying just above treetop at 50mph to work, school, and pleasure, you are bound to think it would use more fuel. But, the fact if you work in Searcy, AR and live in Lonoke, even though it looks like a pretty straight shot, its 37 by road and 20 by air. It would take 25 minutes by air and 45 by car.)
GPS guidance will take you straight to your destination, no stops, no tire wear, no collisions, no getting stuck in traffic or the mud and around any obstacles.
You can live on the highest mountain or the lowest valley, reach the most remote places on the planet and land and take off in any 10' clearing.
Inflate floats on the bottom and stop, land on the lake, for a little fishing on the way home.
In the highly unlikely evet of an emergency need to land, your electric DC starter motor will automatically engage with emergency power and provide time to pick a landing spot and land safely.
Sizes, uses and configurations under consideration
Configurations
Lift rotor on top of load
Lift rotor below load
Lift rotor below load, steering rotor above load
Sizes
Toys - Radio Controlled Giant Scale Craft - Radio Controlled Aerial Crane - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Personal Aerial Vehicle - Flying Car - Commercial/Industrial Lifting Without Pilots or Airports
A Few Obvious Uses
Forest and Crop Inspection - Search and Rescue - Boarder Patrol - Sport, Local, Regional Transportation -Living on the Highest Mountain or The Deepest Valley - Supplies for Remote Locations - Mobility for the Handicapped - Disaster Evacuation - Exploration - Sight Seeing - Hunting - Fishing - 50,000 Fewer Traffic Deaths in the US Alone - Shorter Travel Time - Safe - Low Cost - Crowd Control - Military Defensive and Offensive, Urban, Jungle, and Remote Outpost Crafts - Bridge and infrastructure inspection
