-T / T / +T | Comment(s)  Friday, March 7, 2014  StopRotor
Progresses with RotorWing Development  By Emma Kelly, Australia
and Pacific Correspondent  Australian company StopRotor
Technology says it has “attracted significant interest from
industry” in progressing development of its innovative Hybrid
RotorWing design, which can fly as a helicopter or fixed-wing
aircraft and transition between the two.  The Sydney-based
company declines to comment on development proposals, but
general manager Deanne Watkins says it is also looking to work
with Sydney University’s Aeronautical Engineering Faculty and
Melbourne’s RMIT Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Center
in order to progress the design.    Instead of stopping the
rotors in forward flight or having impractical fuselage designs,
as previous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) designs have,
the Hybrid RotorWing involves aligning the airflow with the
rotation axis of the rotor while in flight, creating a stable
flight profile and allowing transition between