Is there a chance to boil it back down from the big picture to our small (helicopter-) world for a second?
I have a honest question to all of our engineers and testpilots.
Maybe naive but here I go:
Does anybody suspect if there are any alternative ideas deep, deep in the drawers of GE, Rolls Royce, P&W e.g. how not to burn 100 gal of Jet A an hour and still call it "superior technology"?
I mean people suspecting car manufacturers of having plans for a 65 mpg (3 l/100km) car that is as powerfull as a Porsche 911 (a little exaggerated, ok
)? ...and they are not using it because the Oil lobby is protecting their business?
Beeing 31 and having quite a few years to retirement, I'm just curious if there is a better plan than buying a hybrid family van for the ride to the airport, only to burn more than the payload of the aforementioned vehicle just during one day of work?
(anticipating the smartass answer: "buy a porsche!")