On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
It is quite beautiful - and appeared recently at the Paris Air Show, but
more of a powered glider.
Hey, they didn't even show it airborne!
Me, I like big planes like this C-17:
It is not a great leap of the imagination to suggest that the present HotCat
is not far away from what is needed for the first LENR airplane... can we
call it the CatBird?
Little doubt it will be a drone, even if the EADS design was made for a
human pilot (assuming that the deep pockets funder
Actually, it doesn't take a lot of imaginations to visualize a direct
gas turbine conversion. The core of the Hot Cat is a 33mm dia tube, so a
finned bunch of these replacing the combustion chambers could make for
an inefficient engine. Who cares about the efficiency in this case?
Does it fly?
--On Friday, June 21, 2013 7:08 AM -0700 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net
wrote:
With all the talk about NASA and an LENR powered airplane, it would seem
that all that one needs now for the near-term reality - is to apply a
HotCat with a direct conversion scheme - to this design
-Original Message-
From: a.ashfield
Actually, it doesn't take a lot of imaginations to visualize a direct
gas turbine conversion. The core of the Hot Cat is a 33mm dia tube, so a
finned bunch of these replacing the combustion chambers could make for
an inefficient engine. Who cares
-Original Message-
From: Ron Wormus
Does it fly?
Hi Ron - No indication of it flying yet.
As with the Convair Pogo they could be awaiting a brave test pilot :)
Care to volunteer?
Sure. I'd fly it around in ground effect. Those wing gear look pretty
spindly though.
I think they would be better served by putting the ducted electric fan on
an existing sailplane design that just needs to get off the ground enough
to find some lift. Then the batteries wouldn't need to be
Jones,
I wasn't suggesting this is anywhere close, but then neither is the
electric powered version.
We don't know enough about it to start a design, but consider Defkalion
claim a much higher COP and to be able to switch it on and off. If heat
is required, some aviation fuel could be
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
It is not a great leap of the imagination to suggest that the present
HotCat
is not far away from what is needed for the first LENR airplane... can we
call it the CatBird?
lol and the first LENR boat will be called the
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:08:07 -0700:
Hi,
[snip]
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/21/new-electric-airplane-shown-off-at-paris
-air-show-video/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+
IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29
I was disappointed that in
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