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Potentially the Most Revolutionary Aircraft You Have Never Heard of Has Flown
- nickthemagicman 7y agoCooler article that actually describes the aircrafts capabilities. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-and-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-aircraft-may-fly-soon https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28409/the-mysterious-a...
- incangold 7y ago“ Being able to fly direct to smaller airfields near one's destination on smaller aircraft at a very low cost could open up private-like air travel to the masses.” https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/climate-and-climate-change/climate-change/index https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/climate-and...
- ncmncm 7y agoMeh. The future of aviation has to be lifting bodies that have enough room for necessarily low mass-density hydrogen fuel. The energy-to-mass ratio of hydrogen is so far beyond every other fuel that it is worth upending a great deal of past practice. Batteries will never come close; they start at a disadvantage and are no bettcr at the end of the flight, when fuel tanks have become much lighter. Hydrogen can be efficiently converted directly to electrical power to drive electric motors, which being small, light, and not given to exploding can be mounted in ways and places not practical or safe for combustion engines. All of this will take a long time to happen, because to get optimal performance, many different aspects of the design need to change, many of them radically.