After noticing that most jet aircraft have flat bottoms, and how often planes overshoot runways, I thought of attaching something like brake lining to the bottom of jets and attaching the bottom to hydraulic shock absorbers which would lower the friction material covered bottom before landing. Think of how much quicker and safer a plane would land with all that brake lining slowing it down far faster than brakes and tires. It would also eliminate the need for emergency slides and elaborate boarding equipment since the passengers cold just step in and out of the plane. It wold also end the problem of passengers unfastening their seat belts before landing. The first few times someone in the back rown found himself in somebodies lap on the front row, other passengers would get the message. Besides that, all the flames and smoke billowing out from underneath the plane would make air travel more exciting and help out the airlines business. I'm going to send my idea to Elon Musk who will try anything as long as the govenment pays for it. Gerry ......................................................... G Mann wrote: > 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 >
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