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Not to mention additional complexities going above 10,000 ft that adds weight: pressurised cabin (or oxygen) and anti-ice and de-ice systems and heating.
by dhsysusbsjsi 6y ago
Not to mention additional complexities going above 10,000 ft that adds weight: pressurised cabin (or oxygen) and anti-ice and de-ice systems and heating.
- steffan 6y agoExceeding 10,000 ft. is orthogonal to needing anti-/de-ice systems. In fact, you're often less likely to need them at the higher altitudes because it is too cold for airframe icing to occur. Counterintuitively, if it is too cold, you no longer have icing problems.
- eptcyka 6y agoYou need to pass all of the feet leading up to 10'000 feet though.
- nickik 6y agoYou can use the batteries as structure and they produce heat that you need to cool anyway. Seems like there is a lot you can do with that once you start optimizing everything around the battery. I don't know how much weight a anti-ice/de-ice could add. My point was only that once you think about it and redesign everything around the new constraints, you can come up with things that we don't yet think about.