Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

Reminds me of Chrichton's module in Farscape

 

Got 6 months?
40,000 lego bricks?

then you can build your own A380 model.

This one is 6ft long, 7ft wide and 100% self supporting - truly an impressive Lego build.

 

one of my favorite interwar planes, the PT-19 trainer.
I used to have a control line version of it, if anyone still remembers what those were, powered by a Cox 049 engine.

 

That came up in my recommendations...... Very impressive

 

Solar Drone:
https://www.space.com/airbus-zephyr-drone-long-endurance-flight-record

the future
https://theconversation.com/sci-fi-...nto-the-future-of-urban-transportation-179916
https://slate.com/technology/2022/0...ullers-failed-automobile.html?utm_source=digg

Not big enough:


Bransons latest project--Ha
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=49854

 

I hope nobody takes that animation of the flying Nuclear-Powered Sky Hotel seriously.

The amount of things wrong with that concept is staggering.
There's so much BS from that design.


Thunderf00t himself even has a good laugh debunking the BS in that concept:

 

Sorry that's just pure out and out fantasy and anyone promoting that hotel is a grifter

That hotel might happen in an anime somewhere where physics doesn't matter.

 

Well, the odd thing is, just 1atmosphere rocket bodies will float on Venus—-lower down. One atom blimps means the whole envelope is your gondola.

As for us here…I don’t look forward to this:
http://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chaise-longue-double-decker-airplane-seat/index.html

Looks like Mao’s knee-breaking Tiger Bench.

Yeah, smile for the camera…

If you want small
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/refex-reusability-flight-experiment.39710/

Fuel finds
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-chemists-artificial-protein-peers-earth.html
"If we can understand how nature figured out how to use these compounds billions and billions of years ago, we can harness some of those same ideas for our own alternative energy devices,"

Yet people still fuss
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-net-zero-carbon-emissions-aircraft-overlooks.html
https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/taylor-swifts-jet-beats-out-kylies-in-carbon-emissions-study/

 

why I maintain Venus will be settled successfully first. It's easier to reach, gravity is right, much easier to build for. Mars may have the first attempts because you have people like Musk that have had a boner for Mars their whole life. The main difficulty is bringing your own water with you to Venus, but those airship cities would have completely closed cycles, the water isn't going anywhere, once its there.

There will be fear about falling to the surface, but in time people would get mostly get over it. People travel by the millions in cruise ships ever year, enjoying themselves and oblivious to the fact they are in giant floating cities sometimes over the deepest parts of the Atlantic. They know it is safe enough to be there.

 

I think most Gas Giants will just become resource harvesting planets for their elemental gasses as time goes on with Orbital Complexes that mine out the gas and seperate them into their constituent elements for distribution and sales.

 

Venus atmosphere could be mined for water couldn't it?

 

The latest
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01391-3

Looks rather low. Maybe an airship could surf this?
https://www.space.com/35349-giant-wave-spotted-venus-atmosphere.html

The plane in the forest
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/the-plane-in-the-forest.39731/#post-542719

 

I look forward to Hydrogen Airships coming back into fashion.

With modern tech, we can avoid a Hindenburg like disaster.

Especially given how valuable Helium is going to be and how scarce it's becoming.

Wind Tunnel Sim-Testing Completed For Hydrogen-Powered Airship



H2 Clipper can be the start of a Hydrogen Transportation revolution for mass bulk shipping that is competitive with Ocean Cargo Container Freightors, while having superior speed and can compete with slower Air travel.

 

The American Ekranoplan was even crazier than the Caspian Sea Monster.

 

Honestly the idea seems efficient enough just the outlandish execution

 

400 kN TurboFan engines didn't become common until 1993.
The time that the designer wanted it, it would be guzzling Jet Fuel like it's nobodies business with TurboJet engines.

Especially 20x 400 kN engines.

And the world is headed towards more efficiency, not less.

20x Jet Engines or even Turbo Fan engines is ridiculous.

The maintenance, much less the fuel bill is crazy.

Remember, the A380 failed because it's a 4 Engine Aircraft that came into a world where 2 Engine Aircraft can make the same long distance trip.

Nearly every Airline Company swapped over to 2 Engine Aircraft because of the cost savings in maintenance & fuel consumption.

 

I don't know I wouldn't really call the A380 a fail. Have they been dumped by everyone?

 

Sad: 7 Airbus A380s Have Now Been Scrapped

The last A380 has been delivered, manufacturing been discontinued

Airline By Airline: The Fate Of The World's Airbus A380s

Many are to be shelved and their return to service is murky at best.

 

Oh well there you go...... I remember all the hype when they first came out.

Do you think we'll have planes like that ever again?

 

apart from military and a few very specialized applications, I think the era of the quadjet is over. The 380 was an outlier.