Far Since the Wright Bros -- Not. pt 3
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We've Come Far Since the Wright Brothers -- Not.  Part Three.

Mankind was so mystified with the bird wing they missed the whole principle of what we might consider here, for want of a better term, "the loft" or, in some kind of imaginary Germanesque terminology, luftenschreight. It's still something we don't understand fully.

So the Brothers attained powered flight. Big deal. Come on, guys. You've beaten that one to death. Now get busy and master propelled loft. Now you're talking. Get out of that jumbo jet mentality. That's still propelled gliders. And that jump jet you've got, is still a propelled glider that can hover. Big deal.

Before they got on this glider kick, man was beginning to contemplate the first aspects of luftenschreight using balloons and blimps. They were only decades from realizing the concept of proportionate vacuum in the presence of atmospheric forces and might've graduated to galactic loft except that would probably be unmanned -- humans probably couldn't survive the power of the velicocitical forces, as we might call it, as far as I know it hasn't been named get. Well, they might be able to survive it when they adapted to permanent zero g's and shed their endoskeletons. Though I don't really think anyone wants to live outside of a gravity well.  By the way, there's something else besides stress depravation that seems to cause bone loss in microgravity.  It could be rapid adaptation of the genetic system to what it's triggered to assume to be a survival threat.

Forget imitating birds.  They have a task oriented acquisition of atmospherics.  What we need is to get away from the imposition of an aircraft on the environment, and study more about the characteristics of atmospherics.  For one thing, aircraft is flying into a vacuum.  Air in atmospheric volumes exerts great power which is capable of moving correct shapes with incredible results, and velocity is usually one of the least on the results list of necessities. 

The correct distribution of air intake and less emphasis on thrust would get a modern passenger airliner from LA to Australia in maybe a couple of hours or slightly more.  You need to use the engines to transfer a block of atmosphere from the foreword to the aft, or as much as possible.  Of course, I don't know yet the correct application of all that. 

Maybe it's because you don't want the public to be too aware of your capabilities.  Just keep the people fixated on bird flight, as impressive as it is, and maybe the cat won't get out of the bag.  But, you realize, sooner or later this is bound to occur to someone else.  I mean, you couldn't be as backward as you appear to be.   But if you aren't and if you keep it down too much longer, you'll be left holding the bag, not to mention going down in history as the guys who held back progress in manned flight a couple of hundred years.

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June 02, 2005