Originally Posted by
Vortechs Jenerator
localised heat damage/csorching from ECS packs/leaks!
I love the way inventors/dsigners think aircraft operate "as it says on the tin". Have a look in the panels of a 15 year service (well looked after) ailiner and see the scars of leaks spills, tooling damage etc that naturally occur.
How would it stand up to this?
Carrying the extra weight compounded to added initial expense and in itself creating another maintenance item to be inspected etc.
Oh yes, it'll be on every jet soon.
In Dragons den Parlance, I don't like it and for that reason - "I'm out"
All very valid points - but I can't help feel that there are still benefits in letting a researcher like that have a play - he might just come up with something worth having. Sometimes the daft ideas (like aeroplanes without propellers - that really was barking mad - once) go somewhere useful and the track record of predicting in advance what'll work isn't all that good.
Incidentally, looking at Alistair's journal - the contents from the
first issue in 1929 is fascinating...
Technical Progress—1928: Review of Years' Work shows Great Britain in Favourable Position with Regard to Development
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