Talk:FanWing

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[edit] advert

Wow, what a great advertisement! Er, I mean, encyclopedia article. Where to begin transforming this into something with NPOV? The mind boggles. —SaxTeacher (talk) 19:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fan wing

I seem to recall one of the XV-planes having lift-fans in the wings in the 50s or 60s. This article is mainly devoted to a concept for a specific product called the FanWing which is/was in development, but so far has produced no tangible design. I recommend it either be renamed (possibly Fan wing or Fan-in-wing]]), or merged in with a more appropriate article on vertical lift. Either way, it still needs a LOT of work! - BillCJ 19:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with a rename, but to what, I'm still not sure. Despite the project's name, this really isn't a "fan", but more of a squirrel-cage blower. And, as far as I can tell from the offical website, it's at best a STOL aircraft, rather than VTOL. I think there's an article around somewhere on blown flaps, and this is a similar concept. One thing is for certain, though, there are plenty of references that meet WP:V. I'll try taking a stab at this over the next few days, Bill, if you'll keep me in line! Akradecki 06:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

After re-reading it, I think we need to focus the article similar to your work on the Bell-Boeing Quadrotor, esp. since only one company is involved here. Given that "FanWing: is also the name of the company, I doubt that FanWing FanWing would work as the name of the article, so I am fine with leaving it as-is. Since the page describes the concept as a "horizontal-rotor" aircraft, does that mean this page falls under the Rotorcraft Task Force? I'll try to make the article conform to "aircraft" page standards sometime this week (Related content, etc.) - BillCJ 00:29, 28 February 2007 (UTC)