> Is there a way to take off with only active flow control? I think so? Of course you still need steering control on the gears, but I don't think you mean that

> Is there a way to take off with only active flow control? I think so? Of course you still need steering control on the gears, but I don't think you mean that. Maybe you are thinking similar to how I was thinking about airplanes before I started learning to fly. I was thinking that taking off is surely some deviously hard trick, since you go from non-flying to flying. But in reality airplanes are designed to "want to" fly. You just apply throttle and it kinda happens almost on its own. In fact you need to push the nose down a bit so it doesn't fly up before you picked up enough speed to do safely. (I understand that this description might not be true for every airplane, but the general idea that take off is not that hard is usually true for all of them.) In short I don't see why it couldn't work.