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The Carter PAV (Personal Air Vehicle) is a two-bladed, compound autogyro developed by Carter Aviation Technologies to demonstrate slowed rotor technology. The design has an unpowered rotor mounted on top of the fuselage, wings like a conventional fixed-wing aircraft mounted underneath, and a controllable pitch pusher propeller at the rear of the fuselage.〔〔 Heavy weights ( each)〔 are placed in the rotor tips to enhance rotational energy and to reduce flapping. ==Development== When the CarterCopter crashed in 2005, the cost of repair was deemed higher than the cost of making a new aircraft with the added benefit of incorporating lessons learned from the first aircraft. Design of the PAV was begun during 2005.〔"(Archive 2006 )" ''Carter Aviation'', 2 January 2006. (Mirror. ) Retrieved: 7 August 2010. Quote: "For the past several months, Carter has been designing a new aircraft"〕〔"(CarterCopter prototype in the works )" ''Texomas'', 20 December 2006. Retrieved: 26 January 2014.〕 Several changes and development problems occurred along the way; twin boom was deemed unnecessary, so a single boom was constructed, and flaws in rotor blades and hub were revealed during testing and then corrected.〔(Carter 4-Place PAV ) ''Jane's Information Group ''Jane's All the World's Aircraft'', 20 July 2010. Retrieved: 9 September 2010. (Archive )〕〔(All archives ) ''Carter Aviation'', 2003-2010. (Mirror. ) Retrieved: 7 August 2010.〕 On 16 November 2009, the AAI Corporation (a division of Textron) signed a 40-year exclusive license agreement〔(Textron Subsidiary To Develop Carter Rotor Technology ) ''AVweb'', 18 November 2009. Retrieved: 1 May 2010.〕〔Page, Lewis (VTOL gyro-copter flying car mates with killer robot ) ''The Register'', 20 November 2009. Retrieved: 1 May 2010.〕 with the company concerning all unmanned aircraft systems, one of which was intended to deliver of cargo similar to the unmanned Kaman K-MAX, but over a future range of 〔("Textron Subsidiary To Develop Carter Rotor Technology" ) ''AVweb'', 18 November 2009. Retrieved: 1 May 2010.〕〔〕 compared to the demonstrated or more of the K-MAX.〔(Team K-MAX demonstrates successful unmanned Helicopter Cargo resupply to U.S. Marine Corps ), Lockheed Martin press release, 8 February 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2010. (Archive )〕 The agreement committed CarterCopters to developing the technology to maturity, in exchange for exclusive rights to develop UAVs for the next 40 years. The first product in the AAI agreement〔 was to be an autonomous slowed rotor/compound (SR/C) aircraft based on the Carter Personal Air Vehicle.〔(Textron and Carter Aviation or Lockheed Martin might build DARPAs flying Hummer ) ''Next Big Future'' 29 August 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2010.〕〔Warwick, Graham. "(Perseverance Pays Off for CarterCopter )" ''Aviation Week'', 20 November 2009. Retrieved: 9 January 2014.〕〔"(Wichita Falls aviation company lands lucrative deal )" ''Seven News'', undated. Retrieved: 28 January 2014.〕 "Critical Design Review" (CDR) for AAI Corporation was performed around January 2010 when the prototype was already being built. Usually a CDR is performed before a vehicle is built.〔(Archive 2010 ) ''Carter Aviation'', 5 January 2010. (Mirror ) Retrieved: 7 August 2010.〕 In 2014, Carter said they bought back the license from AAI〔Lombardi, Frank. "(Q&A with Carter Aviation CEO Jay Carter )" ''Rotor&Wing'', 6 May 2014. Retrieved: 1 August 2014. (Archived ) on 6 May 2014.〕 and is seeking production partners outside USA,〔"(Carter Aviation Technologies Seeks Investors For PAV Prototype )" ''Aero-News'', 3 September 2014. Retrieved: 27 September 2014.〕 hoping for production 3-5 years later.〔Moore, Jim. "(Carter seeks factory )" ''Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association'', 21 May 2015. Retrieved: 16 July 2015. (Archived ) on 22 May 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carter PAV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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