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| Authored by: Wol on Sunday, May 12 2013 @ 02:01 PM EDT |
?/s ...
The description of any wing (be it fixed wing or rotor) will reference air flow,
and presumably mention METRES per second.
However, I was thinking of a computer, and CLOCK TICKS per second, so you've got
the wrong end of the aerofoil :-)
And patent law is irrelevant. Going back to your thing about speed, it boils
down to "is it fast enough". You couldn't build an aeroplane with the
early petrol engines, because they were heavy and slow. As they got lighter and
faster, powered flight became possible. So speed IS an important part of a
patent - not directly but simply because it makes things possible.
That was my point about unstable aircraft - an aircraft with anhedral is simply
totally uncontrollable with "conventional" controls. You need a
computer. A computer that is FAST (enough). Again, speed is a vital part of the
patent, because without it your aircraft won't fly.
(That's not to say the patent won't fail through obviousness, but at a
simplistic level speed is patentable, where it's the difference between possible
and impossible.)
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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