Below is Part 7 of my white paper series on EVTOL technology development titled "DESIGN TO FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION, BUT A REQUIREMENT". For all aerospace products low weight is critical, but nowhere is weight more critical than on VTOL aircraft. In an ideal world, all VTOL aircraft parts would have infinite life. In the real world however, limited part lives and margins of safety must be balanced against weight and cost, otherwise VTOL aircraft would be too heavy and too costly to be practical. Therefore, with VTOL aircraft, designing parts to failure at a predictable life is not an option, but a requirement. In this paper I provide a general overview “Life Limited” parts on commercial VTOL aircraft and how they impact operating cost and dispatch reliability. I leave it to the reader to draw any comparisons to potential EVTOL aircraft. In place of links to earlier papers, Parts 1 to 6 are included for easy reference at the back of Part 7. Also, thanks to all you have read my papers and recommended changes As always, the opinions in my papers are solely my own, and I am open to making any corrections to historical facts (and grammatical ) errors. Enjoy!
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Once again a top paper !!! Thanks for sharing such valuable insights Carlos ! Happy to re-post !