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Alternative, can you make a turbine blade that can be an (inefficient) wing when bolted to a fuselage and engine? Effectively fly the blade there, using it as a
by eightysixfour 1y ago
Alternative, can you make a turbine blade that can be an (inefficient) wing when bolted to a fuselage and engine? Effectively fly the blade there, using it as a lifting surface area.
- nielsbot 1y agoHow do you get your plane back? Or would you just dispose of it like a rocket booster? :)
- mxfh 1y agoThe carrier host fuselage would need huge controls surfaces anyways, could just use them as normal wings when flying for itself with way less drag. Or just do self mounting Multicopter using the big wing as lift surface for the long haul. They already use propellers for mounting anyway, its wild out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gUm_W1z28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gUm_W1z28
- eightysixfour 1y agoMake the fuselage small enough to truck it back.
- brikym 1y agoI thought about this as well. The blades are asymmetric so you can't use two as wings unless the wind farm orders half of their turbines to rotate in the opposite direction.
- eightysixfour 1y agoWhat is the barrier for that? Seems like a reasonable compromise.