7 STRANGEST New Aircraft
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Date: 2020-03-12
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diGritz1
It's like the Chinese finally gave up on producing their own, and by own I mean reverse engineered Russian jet engines, and decided to try and build something with a Canadian/American flavor. They manged to hack Popular Mechanics and got hold of some declassified pics of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar. Probably saw the 300mph top end and thought yea we can so do that. The Celera 500L is not that weird. It's borrowing heavy from NASA and the US Airforce lifting body designs like the X-24A and the HL-10 from the 60's and 70's. They are very fuel efficient. However at lower speeds it's the opposite. I can only assume the wing design is an attempt to eliminate this in part until it reaches higher speeds and higher altitudes which is where the design is most efficient.
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It's like the Chinese finally gave up on producing their own, and by own I mean reverse engineered Russian jet engines, and decided to try and build something with a Canadian/American flavor. They manged to hack Popular Mechanics and got hold of some declassified pics of Avro Canada's VZ-9 Avrocar. Probably saw the 300mph top end and thought yea we can so do that. The Celera 500L is not that weird. It's borrowing heavy from NASA and the US Airforce lifting body designs like the X-24A and the HL-10 from the 60's and 70's. They are very fuel efficient. However at lower speeds it's the opposite. I can only assume the wing design is an attempt to eliminate this in part until it reaches higher speeds and higher altitudes which is where the design is most efficient.
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hyenafur
Sierra Nevada Corp is a terrible company and no one knows how they're still in operation. The same department that developed the Dreamchaser were responsible for Space Test Program Satellite 5, and that thing is garbage. It never worked for more than 2 weeks at a time, they rushed through the testing process, and they got their Contractor's Periodic Annual Review rating and recommendation changed after the Evaluating Officer noted their piss poor performance and recommended they never be awarded another contract. They wasted no less than 34 million on a project that was supposed to cost half that.
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Sierra Nevada Corp is a terrible company and no one knows how they're still in operation. The same department that developed the Dreamchaser were responsible for Space Test Program Satellite 5, and that thing is garbage. It never worked for more than 2 weeks at a time, they rushed through the testing process, and they got their Contractor's Periodic Annual Review rating and recommendation changed after the Evaluating Officer noted their piss poor performance and recommended they never be awarded another contract. They wasted no less than 34 million on a project that was supposed to cost half that.
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Ben
Stratolaunch is the company, the plane is called the Roc after the mythical bird. They were not intending to launch any of the in development variates of the dreamchaser from the Roc, but there was a proposal for launching a scaled down version using it. The crew and cargo Dreamchaser variates have always targeted the Atlas V as it's launch vehicle. In theory it could also launch on the Falcon 9, but the fairing is not currently larget enough to Accomodate it.
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Stratolaunch is the company, the plane is called the Roc after the mythical bird. They were not intending to launch any of the in development variates of the dreamchaser from the Roc, but there was a proposal for launching a scaled down version using it. The crew and cargo Dreamchaser variates have always targeted the Atlas V as it's launch vehicle. In theory it could also launch on the Falcon 9, but the fairing is not currently larget enough to Accomodate it.
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Tom
Magnet powered machines have eddy current wasteheat emissions, far less than emf machines & zero gas emissions, -10%flux/1000yrs, the machines wear out. UFOs use an array of antennas to pop off & fluid impulse motors to continue accelerating at beyond belief speeds. That's via the antenna plasma creates a reluctance-repulsion layer that shades gravity. Do the force diagram. You had to know how dirt reacts to microwaving it. Simple physics, ymmv.
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Magnet powered machines have eddy current wasteheat emissions, far less than emf machines & zero gas emissions, -10%flux/1000yrs, the machines wear out. UFOs use an array of antennas to pop off & fluid impulse motors to continue accelerating at beyond belief speeds. That's via the antenna plasma creates a reluctance-repulsion layer that shades gravity. Do the force diagram. You had to know how dirt reacts to microwaving it. Simple physics, ymmv.
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Optical
5 mpg. Lol Look at the Diamond DA 62. 342 kmh cruise. 44l per hour. Do the math. That is 212 mph using 11. 624 gallons per hour. About 18 miles per gallon. 5 mpg isn't remotely efficient. And that is a real plane real people can buy. I have one. But for the record, they aren't claiming 5 mpg. They are claiming 30 to 42 mpg. At 500 mph. With a ceiling of 65000 feet. Needless to say I'm skeptical.
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5 mpg. Lol Look at the Diamond DA 62. 342 kmh cruise. 44l per hour. Do the math. That is 212 mph using 11. 624 gallons per hour. About 18 miles per gallon. 5 mpg isn't remotely efficient. And that is a real plane real people can buy. I have one. But for the record, they aren't claiming 5 mpg. They are claiming 30 to 42 mpg. At 500 mph. With a ceiling of 65000 feet. Needless to say I'm skeptical.
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Doggeslife
The big trouble with some single prop pushers is when you get to low speed near a stall and the plane wants to swap ends. The test pilots for the Lear Fan experienced this. I use to listen to their in-flight reports via an air-band radio while they conducted test flights at Stead, Nevada in the mid-1980s.
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The big trouble with some single prop pushers is when you get to low speed near a stall and the plane wants to swap ends. The test pilots for the Lear Fan experienced this. I use to listen to their in-flight reports via an air-band radio while they conducted test flights at Stead, Nevada in the mid-1980s.
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IgnoranceBeater
Gallons? Feet? Miles? What archaic measurements are you using, my friend? And that for a technological-inclined vidchan. Couldn't you at least put the normal metric units in text on the screen, when you're saying it, then the rest of the world could follow your explanation as well.
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Gallons? Feet? Miles? What archaic measurements are you using, my friend? And that for a technological-inclined vidchan. Couldn't you at least put the normal metric units in text on the screen, when you're saying it, then the rest of the world could follow your explanation as well.
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PhillipZX3
That B-57 BURNED hydrogen as a fuel. When you say it's nothing new, that would be like saying the F-35 is nothing new because the Wright brothers were flying an airplane 100 years ago. There's a HUGE difference between a fuel cell powered aircraft vs. just burning hydrogen as a fuel.
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That B-57 BURNED hydrogen as a fuel. When you say it's nothing new, that would be like saying the F-35 is nothing new because the Wright brothers were flying an airplane 100 years ago. There's a HUGE difference between a fuel cell powered aircraft vs. just burning hydrogen as a fuel.
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Mark
Statolaunch looks like it was designed by rival engineers I see no advantages in load capacity Dont like the way it lands on one side. then the other. takes a wide airstrip. Looks cool. but that center wing strut looks vulnerable. Just a thought Spruce Goose made more sense
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Statolaunch looks like it was designed by rival engineers I see no advantages in load capacity Dont like the way it lands on one side. then the other. takes a wide airstrip. Looks cool. but that center wing strut looks vulnerable. Just a thought Spruce Goose made more sense
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