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Yes? For example that central jet engine that the plane already has? Doesn't change anything about requiring additional moving parts to control where the compr
by usrusr 3y ago
Yes? For example that central jet engine that the plane already has?
Doesn't change anything about requiring additional moving parts to control where the compressed air goes and where it goes not. The goal of this entire exercise is not to expel some extra compressed air in places where previously regular outside flow happened, the goal is to control the plane by changing when and where that disturbance by extra air happens.
- Toutouxc 3y agoTo be fair, the original comment was about piston engine powered aircraft. These would really need either a separate compressor/blower or a complicated modification of the exhaust system.
- usrusr 3y agoTrue, must have missed that, deep branches on higher rated sibling comments. And at the time when I did skim the actual grandparent, I dismissed the part about piston because I don't believe that any of the suspected benefits of this pressed air disturbance control scheme could ever be meaningful in the realm of piston-engine drones. Control surfaces are cheap.