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LARS

A Levitated Annular Rotor System for Vertical Flight

This project advances the technical maturity of a Levitated Annular Rotor System (LARS) that will power an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) novel air vehicle to enter and disrupt the Ultra Heavy Lift market (commercial and military). LARS is scalable and designed to achieve a performance power density of 20 kW/kg using an electromagnetic polarity drive system that transfers energy to a rotor blade assembly within a confined space at the system annulus. The rotating blade tips are magnetically levitated in a superconductive environment to reduce or eliminate energy losses due to friction.

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The Love Cycle of a Cicada

In 1970, a young Cincinnati Reds fan, struggling with his family’s move from Ohio to northern Virginia, develops his first crush on a classmate amidst the once-every-17-year emergence of the Atlantic Brood X cicadas. His dream of becoming a Major League catcher is transformed into a career as a Navy officer, but the bond with his childhood friend remains strong, their lives forever intertwined by a pact to repatriate her missing brother from the Vietnam War.

Marked by star-crossed encounters aligned with the emergence cycles of the Brood X cicadas, their lives reconverge when he, a terminal rear admiral, and she, a rising foreign diplomat, embark on a mission to, once and for all, find out what happened to her brother, and bring him home.

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