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You don't think there'd be a bunch of compounding design decisions available to engineers? Pilots currently black out in high G situations so the flying envelop
by mikeyouse 6y ago
You don't think there'd be a bunch of compounding design decisions available to engineers? Pilots currently black out in high G situations so the flying envelope is basically constrained to acceleration / turning radii that are at the edges of pilot abilities. Sure if you removed the pilot in current planes, you'd be able to hit the extremes of that envelope, but if you were to redesign it without ever thinking of a physical pilot, you could have a much wider envelope. What would they be capable of?
Something like this but with a ~full-size airplane:
https://youtu.be/AXSfFLGeVZA?t=53 https://youtu.be/AXSfFLGeVZA?t=53