Posted on 08/03/2021 5:02:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I wonder how many Chinese engineers Lockheed Martin has assigned to the project.
I wonder how many Chinese engineers Lockheed Martin has assigned to the project.
All they need is 1.
The vehicle looks too small to be able to do anything practical with it.
Do you understand the concept of “experimental”? That’s what the “X” stands for.
“Eventually the 30-foot-long nose of the aircraft will be mounted to the fuselage”
Any guesses how an air crew is going to be able to safely taxi, take off & land a plane where the cockpit sits 30-ft behind the nose? Oh wait? The engineers are the experts and like the CDC us peons aren’t supposed to use our common sense evaluating the situation.
... I mean when the electronics fail.
Artist rendition of the completed aircraft. That is one crazy setup for the cockpit. Basically no forward windows due to, I suppose, an attempt to reduce the fuselage cross-section. Probably uses a display screen for the pilot so he can "see" forward.
Is that a sun roof, moon roof, half-roof, or no roof at all?
Ummm, probably cameras feeding into the cockpit.
... I mean when the electronics fail.
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Most high performance aircraft are fly-by-wire and they don’t work if the electronics fails, but these types of aircraft have layers of backup systems.
With some of the more exotic aircraft, like the F-117 Nighthawk, the plane is so inherently *unstable* that even if manual controls existed, it would be impossible to fly manual-only.
Reminds me of the 50’s Douglas X3
You almost have to figure the next step in an aircraft design is to not even bother with windows. The pilot would just have view screens that look like he's looking outside. Or take it even one more step and the pilot just wears a pair of VR goggles.
Perhaps. But we’re not talking about military aircraft here operating from relatively remote air bases. These are commercial aircraft operating from urban airports. These aircraft must, in my view, be inherently stable and be able to operate in degraded conditions with steam gouges and mark-one eyeball.
These are flying Teslas designed to get John Kerry & AL Gore to Davos each year so they can lecture us about carbon offsets. These planes will not be any more economically viable than Concord was. They haul fewer passengers and all the concepts for production models are this small.
Any guesses how an air crew is going to be able to safely taxi, take off & land a plane where the cockpit sits 30-ft behind the nose? >>>> Mount a go pro on the front?
Not actually an aeronautical engineer, are you
Better yet, wonder how many American citizens have been assigned to the project...
Of course we can be assured that LGBT and people-of-color each have their fair proportion represented...
All they are doing is applying tried & true American science & engineering know-how that proved so succesful 70-years ago.../s
Maybe the aircraft is ultimately going to be unmanned.
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