inigo88
Composite-lover
This kind of reminds me of the "what's this?" thread where we were talking about laminar flow in the boundary layer of an airfoil. In researching that thread I came across some designs for wings on gliders covered in tiny holes connected to a suction pump, that are supposed to "suck" the turbulent boundary layer back into laminar flow. Are they trying to do something similar by electromagnetically manipulating the ionized air? (Manipulating the shockwave as well...)
What is going to power the high-voltage probe out front? If the electric motors are superconducting, is the airplane going to have a liquid helium or liquid nitrogen cryogenic cooling plant to keep those elements superconductive (or are they holding out for one of them room temp superconductors that don't exist yet?
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As skeptical as I am of this company, if the overall science is sound I wouldn't be surprised if the US government has (or had) an aircraft like this already built and locked away in a hangar in the Nevada desert.
What is going to power the high-voltage probe out front? If the electric motors are superconducting, is the airplane going to have a liquid helium or liquid nitrogen cryogenic cooling plant to keep those elements superconductive (or are they holding out for one of them room temp superconductors that don't exist yet?
) As skeptical as I am of this company, if the overall science is sound I wouldn't be surprised if the US government has (or had) an aircraft like this already built and locked away in a hangar in the Nevada desert.
