гравилет Gravity-driven aircraft (gravityplane)
Explanation: Дима, наверное, так оно и есть Neither a blimp, nor a glider, nor a fuel-propelled airplane, a new aircraft promises to translate gravitational attraction into both lift and forward motion, capture wind energy with a radical new wind turbine, and usher in the era of fuelless flight. Editor's introduction: Thinking totally out of the box and utilizing private funds, independent inventor Robert D. Hunt is pushing forward with a project that could transform air transport in the twenty-first century--if it proves successful. While Hunt's ***gravityplane*** quite reasonably could have been conceived of in the twentieth century, the materials and technologies for building it may only be available now. Even today, the craft is pushing the envelope, requiring the most advanced of lightweight, fiber-epoxy materials and a radical wind turbine design that has yet to emerge onto the commercial market. Hunt envisions a craft that will control its weight and center of gravity by balancing partial vacuum, helium, and compressed air in interior chambers. The craft will rise when it is lighter than air, and, when it is heavier than air, tilt and glide forward, or float level and sink straight down. All this is to be achieved through a computer-controlled system of pumps, valves, piping, interior chambers, and polyester-reinforced nylon balloons. In this aircraft, compressed air serves as a source of both power and weight. The compressed air is produced through energy captured from the high-speed airstream passing by the craft as it glides downward. The energy capture is achieved by two of Hunt's new vertical-axis turbines, which sit like two counter-rotating eggbeaters atop the craft's center section. Assuming no insurmountable obstacles, the first prototype will likely be followed by a larger, more complete model capable of long-distance, sustained flight through the gravityplane's distinctive series of cycles alternating between buoyancy-lifted ascents and ***gravity-driven***, gliding descents.
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http://www.relga.rsu.ru/n37/rus37.htm Характерная особенность летательного аппарата отражена в его названии: верт(икально) + о + лет(еть) = вертолет. Следовательно, первая часть слова вертолет является произвольным сокращением слова вертикально (вертикальный), а вторая представляет собой то же самое образование, что и в словах самолет, звездолет и др. По такому же образцу, т.е. с произвольным сокращением первой производящей основы, позже были созданы слова гравилет (от гравитация), реалет (от реактивный), вибролет (от вибрация) и др. Это уж так, до кучи
Reference: http://www.fuellessflight.com/huntnews.html
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