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When they carry 100% of their own fuel. This one gets oxygen from the atmosphere.
by psadauskas 16y ago
When they carry 100% of their own fuel. This one gets oxygen from the atmosphere.
- blhack 16y agoAha! I was mostly commenting on the wings being useless though (until it slows down)... Well...not useless, but not really being used to generate any lift.
- teamonkey 16y agoThis plane is a Waverider. It uses its own supersonic shockwave to generate lift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverider
- stcredzero 16y agoYears ago, on a "hacker-oriented" site, most everyone would've known this automatically through their interest in rockets and sci-fi. Times have changed. If you carry 100% of your own fuel, you are subject to a nasty Rocket Equation. The fraction of your own weight that can be payload becomes vanishingly small, which can lead to structural and economic problems.