The Chinese built my perfect airplane...

[elaw]

...a DC-9 with modern... darn near everything!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9xxUFOVqo

[3WE]

DC-9

BAC 1-11

ERJ 145, 175

CRJ

And I think I missed one or two.

Do you think it makes suction vortexes when powered up for takeoff?

[Not_Karl]

"Perfect". doesN't_have 3 engines...

[3WE]

"Perfect"…….3 engines

INDEED!

[elaw]

True, but it has fewer middle seats than other "proper airliners", and the engines are in the back where God intended them to be!

[3WE]

What we really need is an airplane to haul windmill blades, and by golly aeroengineers are working on it!

Because it’s good for the climate to burn jet fuel to fly blades, one at a time, and they still have to be trucked to and from the runway.

IMG_0554.jpeg (577.94 KiB) Viewed 96 times

[Not_Karl]

What we really need is an airplane to haul windmill blades, and by golly aeroengineers are working on it!

Because it’s good for the climate to burn jet fuel to fly blades, one at a time, and they still have to be trucked to and from the runway.

Generators are basically electric motors, right? Put wind through a windmill, you get electricity. Put electricity through a windmill, you get wind.
So... What if we mount the full windmills in place of the engines on a modified 747, like they do to test new engines? We can fill the cargo hold with batteries and fly the windmills completely green. Even better, we could wire each windmill to the next ne and fly with free energy.
If we mount the full windmills, including masts, on top of the wings, gear elongation will Not_be necessary. But we'll probably still need some kind of automated system to augment the characteristics of maneuvering... Or we could take the Osprey approach.
To and from the aeroportie, we can move them on those Tesla electric trucks that Melon Husk keeps on promising us (and, once again, we can feed the truck with the windmills to move them for free).

[Gabriel]

Carnot has left the chat.

[3WE]

Carnot has left the chat.

I didn’t quite understand his engine when I took chemistry. It would be fun to review.

In the meantime [not_italics]we are planting soybeans. How are things with you at the water-splitting, carbon-reducing oxygen factory going?

Carnot’s only going to be using a limited amount of the stored energy.

[Not_Karl]

Carnot has left the chat.

Good riddance. Let's hope Newton does the same.