Great thought. Now design the entire system without adding one ounce of weight or another system that can fail to the aircraft..... oops.... being an aircraft, you need to also have a "redundant system" so if one wheel spin up fails, a fail safe system can take over... can't have one wheel set spinning and the other side dead stop... it would generate control issues on touch down... bad ju ju...
Also, if you used air turbine device to spin up the wheels... how do you control tire rotation speed? Rubber tires have rotation speed limits before failure... an air turbine at flight approach speeds, uncontrolled, could spin the tires to explosion... or early failure due to repeated excess spin speed... oops.... another bad ju ju... Answer.... keep buying new tires... in long term... cheap and safe... compared to potential risks. On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Build brushless motors into the hubs. > Power various aircraft functions while braking the plane, and use them to > speed match the wheels upon landing. > Call it hybrid drive technology and governments will mandate it whether it > makes sense in practice or not. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
