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The pole is on the nose, the time available to react would be before reaching the leading edge of the wing. You'll need to include the length of the front of th
by Tadpole9181 3y ago
The pole is on the nose, the time available to react would be before reaching the leading edge of the wing. You'll need to include the length of the front of the plane in question. At least as I understand it.
- hinkley 3y agoThere are real time industrial sorting systems that use sensors and air puffers to sort items off a conveyor belt 30 ms after they pass by the sensor array. So the class of technology they need to make this works already exists in production. So the real problems will be how they’re sensing, and can they make them survive hundreds of thousands of air miles.
- MBCook 3y agoI’ve seen videos of those. It’s honestly mind bending. A shower of something like nuts or cherries halls a few feed past a bright area and the bad ones just magically sort themselves out into a different stream away from the main flow. I’d love to see one in person.
- hinkley 3y agoThe last one I saw was using X-rays to sort aluminum. Apparently there’s a lead alloy out there. You don’t want to make window frames out of those. But making more of that alloy is fine.