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our tests of combustion engine driven crankshafts connected to a spinning mechanism can perform well in both transatlantic flights and cross country road trips.
by LesZedCB 3y ago
our tests of combustion engine driven crankshafts connected to a spinning mechanism can perform well in both transatlantic flights and cross country road trips.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThat's not the hard part about building a working airplane, though...
- TeMPOraL 3y agoYes, but as the saying goes, anything can fly if you strap a powerful enough engine to it... so we've demonstrated basic capability, and the rest is now optimizing its performance a couple orders of magnitude.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoNot at all. "Anything can fly", but not everything can fly without killing you. The fundamental problem is three-axis control with stability. A source of power does exactly nothing to solve that.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoNo, that just means you need a bigger engine. (And, perhaps, an inertial dampener, to survive the gees.) Think of it this way: the more thrust you get, the farther you'll go before control problems start to manifest. Keep pushing, and eventually the rest of the craft becomes a rounding error in the math :).
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThis is so wrong, I'm not sure even where to start. I will limit myself to saying that more thrust without control just means you're going faster when you crash.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> I will limit myself to saying that more thrust without control just means you're going faster when you crash. Correct. Note that the problem specification talks about flying, and says nothing about the landing or surviving it.