Friday, October 7, 2022

The flying Barrel

 


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  1. Ducted fan, the father of any modern high by-pass jet in the air.

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  2. cartwheels and somersaults - human body parts every where

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  3. Put it on top of a 100 ft pole and you'd have a designer wind turbine. The Hollywood hypocrite, fossil fuel hating ecotards who normally wouldn't want one withing 20 miles from them would have these eye appeals all over their multi-acre, gated, armed guarded multimillion-dollar estates.

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  4. The vertical stab appears to be undersized.

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    1. It's just big enough to support a large enough rudder. The sides of the tube provide all the yaw stability needed.

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  5. I can't imagine it getting off the ground.

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    1. You can't send a kid up in a crate like that!

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  6. 1933 Stpa-Caproni. Seems it did fly

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4-_OWz5qE

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  7. That would strike fear in your enemy or he'd die laughing.

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  8. a GB's overweight big brother.

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    1. Sister. Looks like its about to calve.

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  9. Italian designer intended it as a test bed for the engines in a multi-engines flying wing.

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  10. For the time and place with the power plants available, it was cutting edge and proved concepts in current practice.

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