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Hey guys:

I was doing some thinking, uh oh... Anyway, I was thinking, "Is it possible to create a wingless aircraft that uses an anti-gravity device"?

I believe we already have the technology to do it, but unfortunately it would require nuclear power. My thoughts are creating a huge high RPM nuclear powered gyro which would create a reaction force to the aircraft's weight. Is it possible? Why or why not?

I also suppose another option would be some kind of nuclear powered jet engine which would run the compressor section off of the nuclear power plant, and use radiation instead of combustion to heat and expand the exhaust air.

I think these designs are plausible, but would require some serious politics to allow! Also, they would have to be huge aircraft and engines.

Hi

How about development on the Coanda Effect

For the model:

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/repcotst.htm

For the military applications

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:f3_x ... t%22&hl=en

Regards
Ross

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I can do it well, cheap and quick. But you only get two. You choose which two.. Red Adair

It has already been done. The exhaust leaves a significant amount of fallout.

Hi BDK:

I don't think it would if you ran the compressor section off of the reactor. In fact it would be very clean. However if you ran radioactive particles through the combustion cycle, then that would cause pollution.

does project aurora raise a few eyebrows???? probably with big brother lurkers on the site!!! here's to ya guys!!! regards, tom

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Tom Wrote:



Yes, a friend of my dad, ex-Navy told me in 1986 that he saw a split second photo news leak of the stealth fighter and assured some friends and me of its existence. 3 yrs before it was officially released in 1989.

I asked him at the time "How can you be sure"? He said," I know what I saw".

What combustion cycle? What compressor section? Are you making a nuclear turbofan????

A nuke powered jet turbine has already been tried and abandoned. The first prototype engine weighed in somewhere in excess of 89 tons and filled something like 144,000 cubic feet. The one megawatt reactor flown in the B-36 itself took up about the same volume as a couple of Suburbans.

Yeah; me and the Col., called Moxie turbine.