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Old 23rd June 2006 | 14:20
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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sheer madness, of course

to achieve the equivalent lift that a convential forced-landing scenario would generate (i.e. Vref glide) with only one wing, requires an effective speed of the single wing of about 1.41Vref. That has to be averaged across the single wing, consistent with some kind of area-averaging. Let's assume that the 1.4Vref speed must be achieved at half-span. If we assume a Vref of the order of 140kts, that means that the half-span speed is 200kts, say 300fps. Assuming a 300ft span, that makes the radius of rotation about 75ft. To get 300fps at 75ft radius requires 4 rad/sec, or about 250 deg/sec. That's a huge rate to try to create.

How the lift on the single wing isn't going to cause the aircraft to roll/tumble?

How anyone is going to aim this projectile at an impact site?

crazy. proves any idiot can get a patent...
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