Leaving on a Electroaerodynamic Plane
All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin'
It's early morn
The taxi's waitin ' He's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die
1 posted on
11/22/2018 10:42:16 AM PST by
DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Ironically the original was written by John Denver.
2 posted on
11/22/2018 10:46:10 AM PST by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
As with all so called neat inventions scaling up is the challenge and usually impossible
3 posted on
11/22/2018 10:47:58 AM PST by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Get me on flight number 505 ...
4 posted on
11/22/2018 10:48:26 AM PST by
bankwalker
(Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I thought someone was going to post a picture of a paper airplane.
6 posted on
11/22/2018 10:53:46 AM PST by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
aileron, elevator, rudder ...
8 posted on
11/22/2018 10:56:34 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Just thinking about the headline as I haven’t read the article yet.....reflecting on the ten cent balsa wood planes of yore (wonder how much they’d cost today?). They flew with no moving parts (unless one thinks of the horizontal stabilizers, and, or wings flying off, spinning to the ground when the assembled toy plane was tossed).
They flew, but they also crashed as parts flew off of them most of the time unless one took the step to glue them.
OK. Time to read the article.
9 posted on
11/22/2018 10:59:58 AM PST by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
For one, the battery required to supply the necessary 40,000 volts the propulsion system requires would be massive, creating huge weight challenges that the design would need to overcome.
and just exactly WHY does it need to be battery powered?
a gas turbine as to make electricity would work jut as well
11 posted on
11/22/2018 11:03:17 AM PST by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
This is great! Now if we stretch a giant bungee cord from NYC to Boston a passenger version might have enough energy to take off. I think I need a grant...
12 posted on
11/22/2018 11:03:57 AM PST by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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13 posted on
11/22/2018 11:04:39 AM PST by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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15 posted on
11/22/2018 11:05:27 AM PST by
zeebee
To: DUMBGRUNT
I remember reading about this effect in
Popular Science in — probably — 1964 or '65.
They had an article about how you could make a flyer from tin foil and balsa wood and sewing needles, and power it with the output of a TV flyback transformer.
Perhaps MIT didn't have that issue in the library.
20 posted on
11/22/2018 11:20:11 AM PST by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: DUMBGRUNT
Sniff sniff, smell the ozone?
And does it “pollute?”
24 posted on
11/22/2018 11:39:34 AM PST by
dhs12345
To: DUMBGRUNT
Does this mean I can have a “hover conversion” kit put on my DeLorean?
25 posted on
11/22/2018 11:42:34 AM PST by
FrankR
(Make America Great Again, and Keep It That Way.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
28 posted on
11/22/2018 12:01:57 PM PST by
gaijin
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Needs an amps/payload graph, and more details on the battery.
33 posted on
11/22/2018 12:50:23 PM PST by
TChad
To: DUMBGRUNT
Bungee launch. Probably a 1% net propulsion measured.
37 posted on
11/22/2018 1:45:50 PM PST by
Revolutionary
("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: DUMBGRUNT
Call Tesla. They can make a flying car.
41 posted on
11/22/2018 5:57:17 PM PST by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: DUMBGRUNT
"MIT researchers create plane that flies without any moving parts" So this airplane flies without moving? That must be some trick.
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