Use this one to download a video to watch potential Gavins, taking off, flying and landing, vertically, from your garden, on your system, today:

Carter: http://www.cartercopters.com/highlight_video.html

Just below are a couple you can use to see the pilotless Global Hawk, RDL's choice to adapt to create Mother Hawks.  Mother Hawks watch over fleets of pilotless  Gavin Sport, Gavin Hawk and Gavin Super Hawk autogyros, carrying passengers and goods, safely, to and from your house, without needing roads or airports, nor using fossil fuels to produce CO2:

Global Hawk: http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/systems/system_pdfs/RQ4_Block20_GlobalHawk_Cutaway_WEB.pdf

http://www.is.northropgrumman.com/systems/system_pdfs/GH_Brochure.pdf

Next is a beautiful example of an airplane RDL would like to use to base the Gavin autogyros. With  a rotor above, not so many windows but a big canopy in front. The wing would be low down, and fold up to fit in your garage or inside the railcar you landed on to go to France through the Channel Tunnel.  Paris would be less than two hours and you could take off again and land on top of the Tour d'Argent for lunch.  A duck, I think. 

Spaceship 1

 Oh! Okay, the Chateau d'Embry is closer and it might be quicker not to take the train at all:  

 http://www.chateaudembry.com/en/index.php.

A Letter to Northrop Grumman

Date: 2008-03-31

A letter to Northrop Grumman – Just this morning, there was a report in the Daily Mail about a Cessna pilot who died in a crash in the English, Biggin Hill suburb.  He lost his life courageously, by avoiding all but one (unoccupied) house in the close. Only the pilot and other four passengers died. Almost every other page had articles on fatalities on various road accidents, with a wide distribution of causes.  Some were drunk drivers, unlicensed drivers or drivers driving too fast.

RDL has been working hard to reduce CO₂ emissions, in houses, in buildings, in cars and in airplanes, but to reduce unnecessary injuries and fatalities on roads and airlines.  Producing hydrogen locally and using it in homes and autogyros is attractive both to, avoid CO₂ and road use, and problems of distribution of hydrogen for use in cars.  We are also considering tradeoffs in use of autogyros on the impact of car and airplane crashes.

Of course, the story of the mice, plotting to put a bell on the cat, comes to mind.  Just how do you get the car accidents off the road? One answer is that autogyros don’t have accidents on the roads.  But, what about more autogyros in the sky? How does that help with airplanes, or autogyros for that matter, falling out of the sky?  Okay, so what is the advantage of using autogyros instead of cars? The effect of getting cars off the roads is obvious.  Even the Mayor of London sees the logic of that.  His answer is to force cars off the road. Don’t to town or, if you do, take a bus or train.  Perhaps busses are safer, at least if there are fewer cars to crash into. Trains, like autogyros, hardly ever have crashes on roads.

Our ideas of autogyros actually caused a paradigm shift in the safety question. shifting the problem area from the road to the sky.  Simplistically speaking, the sky is bigger and less constricted.  There is a lot more room for vehicles to move around in without crashing into each other and very little nearby to collide with (except the ground).  Three problems: 1) Autogyros go faster. 2) They hit harder if they fall out of the sky, or hit the side of a mountain or another autogyro or airplane. 3) People, by and large, have no experience driving autogyros, versus diving cars.   Simple answer: there are likely to be fewer accidents, but who knows if there would be fewer fatalities, overall.  (Even if autogyros don’t plummet out of the sky like helicopters and airplanes when the engines stop.)

A real solution requires knowing whether Northrop Grumman and RDL, ideally, collaborate. If RDL concentrates on three kinds of Gavin autogyros, which can: 1) takeoff and land vertically, for the owner, leaving from his front driveway, as easily as a car, 2) fly pilotlessly, under the control of a competent airline pilot, 3) with or without passengers, and 4) definitely, without a pilot on board.  This time, however, the pilot is acting more like an air traffic controller, guiding airplanes taking off and landing on an airport.  Pilots can work at home (not wasting time commuting to work in a car, spewing CO₂).  And, Northrop Grumman concentrates on modifying, building and selling 84 Global Hawks, renamed Mother Hawks, designed in collaboration with RDL, to observe and control 100,000s of autogyros flying in the sky, instead of an appreciable number of cars, running on the roads . RDL says about 6 Mother Hawks would be required in the UK at the beginning of 2010, two in the sky 24/7; the rest for the rest of the World over the next 22 years. 

RDL has been working on this particular problem for less than a month, but you can find out more on: http://www.embry.biz.  Specifically, let’s discuss collaboration with you.  I suggest a joint venture, eg:

• RDL is the Joint Venture Partner – Consulting [JVP-C] on a project to launch of the Mother Hawk, firstly in the UK, then in Southern California
• Northrop Grumman is the Managing Joint Venture Partner MJVP] on the project to launch the Mother Hawk
• Northrop Grumman is the JVP-C on a project to build fleets of Gavin autogyros
• RDL is the MJVP on that project.

RSVP.

Yours truly,

Something about hydrogen and cars:

http://www.h2carsbiz.com/archive/artman/publish/cat_index_13.shtml

Hydrogen technology essentials:

http://www.iea.org/textbase/techno/essentials5.pdf

From above:

"INFRASTRUCTURE – Global investment to supply H2 to the world’s transport sector could be in the range of several hundred billion dollars over several decades ($0.1-$1.0 trillion for pipelines and $0.2-$0.7 trillion for refueling stations). This level of investment is not insurmountable in the long term, but building infrastructure today is premature because key H2 technologies that may have an impact on infrastructure are still under development"

These figures add up to $0.3 to $1.7 trillion to build the distribution system, over the cost of building a centralized plant for hydrogen generation and the cost of the feed stock and the markups on all the costs and the taxes the government would see fit to levy on the businesses and YOU.  BTW: They may also need to try to capture the CO2 byproducts produced, without letting it escape into the atmosphere.

So, this is one reason to generate hydrogen at home, use it at home and in your autogyro, which can refuel at home.  Else it can refuel at other people's homes, or at mini-airports which also generate hydrogen on site.  A mini-airport takes about an quarter of an acre, in a field, or on top of a parking lot garage. It needs electricity and water to generate hydrogen on site like the one you, or your friend, has. BTW:  Your, and similar, system's feed stock is water (H2O) and it's byproduct is oxygen (O2).