Interesting... uses lighter-than-air to gain height and airplane glide to gain speed.
Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
http://www.fuellessflight.com/
Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
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re: Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
I have no doubt they are looking for investors.
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re: Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
Cool idea...something between a dirigible and a glider. Hope it works because travel by conventional jet scares the hell out of me. His design looks like it would be far less likely to crash. The only problem I can imagine for it would that flying it would be more complicated by weather conditions than for a regular heavier-than-aircraft...particularly high winds aloft.
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On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
re: Fuel-less Gravity Powered Flight
I am surprised you havent seen this before...
I think the idea is ELSA-like in its untested way...
great idea but who's gonna foot the bill...
that's alot of investment on a high probability loss...
I think the idea is ELSA-like in its untested way...
great idea but who's gonna foot the bill...
that's alot of investment on a high probability loss...
"A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds."~ M. Twain.