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Originally Posted by kato13
As designed there would also be very little room for fuel so that also pushes you to fusion jet engines which is another engineering feat.
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I remember suggesting that air plasma could be generated to produce thrust for a jet engine a few years ago on this forum and almost being scoffed at for the idea. Well, whose laughing now?
https://interestingengineering.com/t...ral-air-travel
Same with NASA GL-10, as some said it was only a demonstrator and scale-up would take a long time. Three years to the X-57 Maxwell is not that long. Still a ways to go, but with testing slated for next year, electric-powered flight is starting to look good.
In game, we have time travel, "light" fusion reactors in the 1MW range and more. Somehow a fusion powered jet just doesn't seem that unreasonable to me.