Can Chinook fly with one rotor?

The Chinook cannot fly with only one rotor. The blades inter-mesh and if one stops turning the aircraft usually comes apart into many pieces.

Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends,:pilotfly:  
 
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and that the New Year has started well. For those of you who may have missed it, please check out our 2024 and Beyond video. 2024 will see the introduction of the Vulkan API which will offer better frame rates for most players as well as new graphical capabilities such as ray tracing and improved VR performance.
 
In addition to new aircraft, terrains and Vulkan API, DCS core will see many new features, as well as bug fixes and improvements based on your feedback and requests.  
 
New modules and core improvements will be developed in conjunction with work on existing modules. Please check out the details below.  
 
Thank you for your passion and support.
 
Yours sincerely,  
 
Eagle Dynamics
 
 
With the release of multi-threading and DLSS/FSR, the next big core DCS task is the support for the Vulkan Application Programing Interface (API). Multi-threading was a prerequisite to support the Vulkan API backend and enhance system performance/efficiency.  
 
Much of the Vulkan API work over the past several years has focused on adapting the DCS internal tools to seamlessly integrate with optimized functionality to ensure peak performance. This has been a challenging endeavor to rectify all validation errors, streamlining graphics and processing tasks, improving compatibility with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel hardware and a diverse set of drivers, and creating and refining the groundwork for rendering across multiple threads that will allow even more advanced graphic capabilities.
 
As we move into 2024, we continue to optimize and refine performance to exceed what is possible with DirectX 11. It is important that we continue to push graphic standards whilst maintaining excellent performance for both 2D, and even more so, VR.  
 
However, like multi-threading and DLSS/FSR, results will vary between players based on their hardware and settings.  
 
Save Game. Our new game persistence system will allow you to save mid-mission and return to that save point at a later time.
 
Replay System. The current track file system was originally created as a debugging system that simply reproduced game input to construct a replay of the mission. However, this system depends on limited DCS version changes between when the track was recorded and when being played back. The system in development for 2024 is designed to address this and will offer additional capabilities.  
 
Infantry Unit Improvements. We will be working on new infantry models and animations in 2024 along with more life-like behaviors.
 
New Air, Ground, and Naval Units. New units will be available in 2024 that will range from World War II to modern day. Each unit requires thousands of man-hours to create and will be provided as optional packs at their highest levels of detail. Standard versions will also be available for free to ensure both single-player and multiplayer compatibility for all.
 
Graphic Improvements. In addition to the graphic improvements that the Vulkan API will afford, we will also be making improvements to the Render Graph for better VR performance, new and improved special effects, and further advancements in the FLIR rendering system.
 
Weather. The weather focus for 2024 will be on a new fog system and towering clouds with appropriate line-of-sight blocking.
 
Voice Chat. 2023 saw great connectivity improvements and a unique, real-time voice processing allowing users to modify voices to replicate different radio eras and technologies. In 2024 we will continue to integrate radios to vehicles, ships, and other units. We also plan external application support and other player-requested features.
 
Spherical Earth. One of the biggest changes coming to DCS is the Spherical Earth. This substantial work is ongoing however we do not expect to release it this year due to the size of the endeavour.
 
Dynamic Campaign. Please read our Newsletter for 29 December 2023 where we discuss DCSDC in detail.
 
Air Traffic Control. Although we have a solid design to provide an exceptional ATC experience, much of the work in 2024 will involve how we generate the voice dialog and create a much-improved interface.
 
Improved Accessibility. To make DCS more accessible to new players, the Graphic User Interface will be updated to make it more user-friendly and include a Launcher with new capabilities. New interactive missions are also being developed to shallow the learning curve with popular modules like the F/A-18C.
 

Matt continued: “Right now our current maps, which are actually individual discrete maps, can be up to about 1,500km by 1,500km but again once you go to the new map technology, there is no limit. It's not maps, it’s just a single world and how it folds is that map technology. We've been working on that technology for about a year and a half now and it's coming along quite well.”
 
“So, in three to four years perhaps?” I asked. “I certainly think within then,” he said. “But again, it kind of comes back to what I was talking about earlier, Vulkan and multi-threading. Until it actually goes into testing, there's really no way to give any kind of good estimate, as you just never know. You know how extensive the new work is going to be to get to the point for release. It's only when you get actually pretty close, then you are really comfortable with giving an actual release date.”
 
As Matt explained the new technology, my mind wandered towards the complexity of delivering such a mammoth world. Remember, each structure has to effectively have a damage model and, once part of a campaign system, some kind of ‘usefulness’ functionality values attached to each - unlike what you see in the current flight simulator.“Again, it was kind of like with a cloud system,” Matt continued. “It's something we've been researching and putting the technology together for literally years. So, we're developing a clever system which we think is going to look absolutely fantastic but be a world system that's going to be applicable to an actual combat simulator.” What’s not clear yet is how existing maps would be integrated into this new world system. ED points out too they still have to account for World War II maps that cannot be based on GIS (Geographic Information System) data. Different options are currently being evaluated by the developer.
 
So, it looks like Vulkan with multi-threading won’t just be a nice feature in the years ahead but an essential component to the simulator, especially when you have so many units operating in this new virtual globe.
 
Matt explained one of their biggest challenges. “One of the big things we're looking at now is creative ways to have almost unlimited numbers of units without having a huge performance impact, so as you would imagine, we cannot do it the way we're doing right now, where really every unit is tracked in detail, anywhere in the map. It’s going to have to be a much smarter system based on where the player is in the world.”