KiloNewton/Pound foot of thrust into Horsepower units

[Arjun Singh]

This appears to be word salad. Possibly you envision heating up a material to the point where its atomic nuclei and their component protons and neutrons spontaneously disassociate into a "plasma" of quarks. We cannot heat a meaningful quantity of material to such a temperature, cannot confine the resulting plasma, cannot use such a process to perform useful work and cannot cause any particular material to "precipitate out". The idea of the residue being reusable is not sensible since the energy inputs to the process would be huge and almost certainly unrecoverable.

Perhaps.

 

[Arjun Singh]

What are group's comment on Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey? I feel the aircraft design is quite sufficient to inspire a class of heli-crafts of near future for both passenger and cargo modes. Yet it is not much talked about.

 

[jbriggs444]

What are group's comment on Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey? I feel the aircraft design is quite sufficient to inspire a class of heli-crafts of near future for both passenger and cargo modes. Yet it is not much talked about.

What market would it be serving? If you are competing against turboprop craft, the ATR 72 is larger, cheaper, faster and has fewer crew.

 

[Arjun Singh]

What market would it be serving? If you are competing against turboprop craft, the ATR 72 is larger, cheaper, faster and has fewer crew.

ATR 72 is a conventional fixed wing aircraft. I am talking about hybrid design of the Osprey. Aviation infrastructure, especially in emerging economies is concentrated towards major cities. Short Take-off/Vertical Take-off and landing aircrafts on the other hand do not require huge runways and thus can be served by airports with limited space and thus comparatively affordable infrastructure. Aircrafts like Osprey are basically made for defence purposes and here the operating costs are superseded by their unique field deployment capacities. A class of aircrafts built on such a platform for civilian use with comparative long haul and passenger capacities to their fixed wing counterparts, would surely consider low operating and maintenance costs as its prime design feature. Depending upon their application, these aircrafts can add an entirely new branch of premium and civil utility aviation infrastructure, to operate coordinatively alongside the present day high yield conventional infrastructure.

 

[cosmik debris]

Unless it's massless, each quantum object does have its own gravitational field

Massless particles have a gravitational field too.

Cheers

 

[Arjun Singh]

Massless particles have a gravitational field too.

Cheers

Ain't these particles somehow part of gravity itself?

 

[cosmik debris]

Ain't these particles somehow part of gravity itself?

Ummm, no!

Cheers

 

[Arjun Singh]

Ummm, no!

Cheers

So how would you describe their quantum presence? Is their masslessness designates some sort of quantum threshold for energy to create mass?
What's your view?

Cheers!

 

[cosmik debris]

So how would you describe their quantum presence? Is their masslessness designates some sort of quantum threshold for energy to create mass?
What's your view?

Cheers!

I don't know what any of this means, sorry.

Cheers

 

[David Lewis]

What are group's comment on Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey?

If you need an airplane with VTOL capability then the Osprey might be one to consider, but you will pay dearly for that capability.

Ain't these particles somehow part of gravity itself?

My understanding is a photon will warp spacetime because of its momentum.

 

[Arjun Singh]

If you need an airplane with VTOL capability then the Osprey might be one to consider, but you will pay dearly for that capability.

My understanding is a photon will warp spacetime because of its momentum.

You mean by high fuel consumption due to VTOL?

 

[David Lewis]

Poor fuel efficiency is only the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Arjun Singh]

Poor fuel efficiency is only the tip of the iceberg.

What else?

 

[David Lewis]

Mechanical complexity, low reliability, astronomical acquisition & operating cost, maintenance requirements, accident rate and pilot skill required.

 

[Arjun Singh]

Mechanical complexity, low reliability, astronomical acquisition & operating cost, maintenance requirements, accident rate and pilot skill required.

Yet all these factors can be sorted out in the design upgrades of later class of VOTLs/STOLs. I believe Osprey's current design is good enough to inspire a whole new class of aircrafts without competing with conventional helicopters or fixed wing planes. A lot of its maintenance and handling complexities if any are I believe due to its unique use of twin turbo shafts which perhaps in future designs would become more integrated with the wing and fuselage, making the aircraft easier to operate.

 

[David Lewis]

You're right. As technology advances, VTOL will become more competitive with conventional fixed wing.

 

[Arjun Singh]

You're right. As technology advances, VTOL will become more competitive with conventional fixed wing.

I believe VTOLs will add to the vital side of aviation nomenclature of near future, let's say within a decade or so if I am not over stating. The reliability, frugality, handling parameters, usability and overall performance criteria of conventional fixed wing planes I don't think can be competed with in the traditional operational domains, at least not in foreseeable future.

 

[Arjun Singh]

My understanding is a photon will warp spacetime because of its momentum.

Relativity equation states that energy of a particle is product of its mass and square of its velocity at the speed of light. At this state the particle mass simply converts to energy aligned to universal law of conservation of energy. To go beyond spacetime threshold a force has to be acting on the photon by virtue of its change in momentum or simply it needs to accelerate, p=mv or f=m(v2-v1) which is not possible in our dimension so thankfully spacetime would stay intact. Am i right?

 

[jbriggs444]

Relativity equation states that energy of a particle is product of its mass and square of its velocity at the speed of light.

No. It does not.

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/what-is-relativistic-mass-and-why-it-is-not-used-much/

 

[Arjun Singh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAN_B&W_K108ME-C
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCL_Globe

Check out this container ship, apparently the largest of its kind in the world. The installed engine powerplant capacity of this class of diesel piston engines is upward of 69000 KW or 93000 hp.

 

[berkeman]

This thread has veered a ways off-topic now, so it's a good time to tie it off. Thank you to all who contributed.