To: SeekAndFind
Eight days navigating over the US and beyond had it not been shot down would have required one heck of a lot of fuel for whatever propulsion system it used. And according to the govt., it was propeller driven.
Can somebody help me out here? From this photo, I can't see any propeller large enough to function at the alleged 68,000 feet nor is there any fuel tanks large enough to keep it going for all that time........
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29 posted on
04/03/2023 11:56:55 AM PDT by
Hot Tabasco
(From here on out, transmission fluid will be referred to as Gender Neutral Shift Juice)
To: Hot Tabasco
I don’t know - looks like solar panels to me.
32 posted on
04/03/2023 2:08:02 PM PDT by
FroggyTheGremlim
(I'll be good, I will, I will!)
To: Hot Tabasco
I don’t know - looks like solar panels to me.
33 posted on
04/03/2023 2:08:37 PM PDT by
FroggyTheGremlim
(I'll be good, I will, I will!)
To: Hot Tabasco
It’s solar panels. And it wouldn’t take much of propeller to move it. I would be the view of the prop(s) are blocked by the panels.
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