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Old 11-29-2020, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by kato13 View Post
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.
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.
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