barnstorm2
01-09-2009, 06:29 AM
http://texomashomepage.com/content/fulltext/?cid=29431
(There is a VIDEO at the link above)
CarterCopter Revolutionizes Flight
The BCI’s also hoping Wichita Falls will become home to what could be a world- renowned manufacturing plant, for an innovative "personal air vehicle."
Jay Carter Jr. is applying for a state fund to invest in “CarterCopter." And if he succeeds, the BCI wants the city to offer incentives for a plant to be located in Wichita Falls.
If you're wondering what the excitement's all about – from network documentaries, to stories we've done here at home – Katie Crosbie has answers. It was a fictional world of "Meet George Jetson" ... Well, now -- meet Jay Carter Junior ... Who likes to take on "the impossible." “It’s just that I feel like I know how to do it,” Carter said. “And the fact that they say it's impossible makes it that much more fun." "Impossible" things -- such as building a "personal air vehicle" which can take off vertically like a helicopter -- but fly as fast & as far as a fixed- wing airplane. “It’s the holy grail,” Carter said. “It's what we've really been striving for, ever since we first started flying." “Every once and a while, you stop and realize what you’re doing, and it really is something special,” said Jeff Lewis (Aeronautical Engineer). And the possibilities in this old warehouse seem endless.
Carter says in "show-off mode," the CarterCopter could fly up to 5,000 miles nonstop - meaning two people could fly from Dallas to Paris in 24 hours. “The idea is to make this so simple & safe that grandmomma and granddaddy will feel comfortable about getting in this aircraft and flying 200 miles to go see their grandchildren,” Carter said. The CarterCopter can land itself -- and has a sort of built- in parachute -- because the rotor is always in autorotation. Carter says the plane could be scaled up for the military -- to bring armor & troops directly to a fight. “This would totally change the way our military thinks and fights,” Carter said.
Though he's gained international recognition – Jay Carter Junior says he owes his success to Jay Carter Senior – who's now a primary share-holder in CarterCopter. “He’s the one that got me started,” Carter said, “and he's the one that taught me most everything I know about design." And above all, he stays humble: "It's a neat project,” Carter said. A "neat project" ... If the CarterCopter meets expectations, that could be the understatement of the century.
Carter says if funding comes through, he could finish his prototype by the end of the year ... And by 2013, he could be producing hundreds a year. He says they would probably cost around 350- thousand dollars initially -- and would require a pilot's license.
(There is a VIDEO at the link above)
CarterCopter Revolutionizes Flight
The BCI’s also hoping Wichita Falls will become home to what could be a world- renowned manufacturing plant, for an innovative "personal air vehicle."
Jay Carter Jr. is applying for a state fund to invest in “CarterCopter." And if he succeeds, the BCI wants the city to offer incentives for a plant to be located in Wichita Falls.
If you're wondering what the excitement's all about – from network documentaries, to stories we've done here at home – Katie Crosbie has answers. It was a fictional world of "Meet George Jetson" ... Well, now -- meet Jay Carter Junior ... Who likes to take on "the impossible." “It’s just that I feel like I know how to do it,” Carter said. “And the fact that they say it's impossible makes it that much more fun." "Impossible" things -- such as building a "personal air vehicle" which can take off vertically like a helicopter -- but fly as fast & as far as a fixed- wing airplane. “It’s the holy grail,” Carter said. “It's what we've really been striving for, ever since we first started flying." “Every once and a while, you stop and realize what you’re doing, and it really is something special,” said Jeff Lewis (Aeronautical Engineer). And the possibilities in this old warehouse seem endless.
Carter says in "show-off mode," the CarterCopter could fly up to 5,000 miles nonstop - meaning two people could fly from Dallas to Paris in 24 hours. “The idea is to make this so simple & safe that grandmomma and granddaddy will feel comfortable about getting in this aircraft and flying 200 miles to go see their grandchildren,” Carter said. The CarterCopter can land itself -- and has a sort of built- in parachute -- because the rotor is always in autorotation. Carter says the plane could be scaled up for the military -- to bring armor & troops directly to a fight. “This would totally change the way our military thinks and fights,” Carter said.
Though he's gained international recognition – Jay Carter Junior says he owes his success to Jay Carter Senior – who's now a primary share-holder in CarterCopter. “He’s the one that got me started,” Carter said, “and he's the one that taught me most everything I know about design." And above all, he stays humble: "It's a neat project,” Carter said. A "neat project" ... If the CarterCopter meets expectations, that could be the understatement of the century.
Carter says if funding comes through, he could finish his prototype by the end of the year ... And by 2013, he could be producing hundreds a year. He says they would probably cost around 350- thousand dollars initially -- and would require a pilot's license.