11-15-2015, 03:55 AM
History has examples of Visionaries who have been scoffed at, and who would have imagined, in 1903, that something like the Lockheed SR71 would have flown 61 years after the Wright Brothers first flight at Kittyhawk, and while ducted fan flight technology, in the shape of the Bell X22, has been around two years after the SR71s first flight, this I think would appear to be several steps too far. The power required to drive the fans to lift the weight would be enormous, and I’d hate to try to keep the thing directionally stable in a cross wind.
Cheers, the Bear.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."