RAF Seeks Zero Emissions Trainer
RAF doing market exploration for military certified zero emissions light training aircraft ? Alert 5
RAF doing market exploration for military certified zero emissions light training aircraft The U.K.’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a Market Exploration called Zero Emissions Air System, on behalf of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The RAF is searching for its next generation of light flying training aircraft that must be more environmentally friendly and produces a zero carbon emission at the point of use. The light aircraft must have an endurance of around 90 minutes with a turnaround time of not more than 20 minutes. This will include replenishment of the powertrain energy source, which can be electric or hydrogen based. For more information, hit the Source below Source |
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Originally Posted by 622
(Post 11075290)
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...might need a bigger band! All that rubber winding and unwinding creates heat - not good for the climate!!! |
Originally Posted by Saintsman
(Post 11075288)
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https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/a...ectro-easa-tc/
endurance up to 50 minutes (plus VFR reserve) max load factor permitted @ (1.875) +4g -2g design safety factors & tested minimum 1.875 |
The current EFT trainer, the Grob Tutor, isn’t producing much in the way of emissions at the moment...
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Sorted, do you want it shipping?
Link Flight Trainer - govdeals.com Or send your chaps around and we can do it on location Link Trainer Flight Simulator - Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum (nasflmuseum.com) |
Originally Posted by pasta
(Post 11075297)
I suppose we could bungy it off a ridge - that would be green but the pilot's trousers might be brown if the ridge isn't working. |
Originally Posted by Ninthace
(Post 11075428)
If you saw the smoke coming out our winch, it would be a non starter. Even a gas winch isn't green.
I suppose we could bungy it off a ridge - that would be green but the pilot's trousers might be brown if the ridge isn't working. |
Originally Posted by unmanned_droid
(Post 11075298)
All that rubber winding and unwinding creates heat - not good for the climate!!!
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Zero huh, very good..
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11075494)
Zero huh, very good..
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That nasty glider is fibreglass so it isn’t really green, what you need is wood and fabric, here are some I took earlier.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1f459ef8_c.jpg1938 Schneider SG38 by Tony Taylor, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6c831fb2_c.jpg1938 Schneider SG38 2 by Tony Taylor, on Flickr |
Sorry if they are not as sharp as normal he was about 600ft to 1000ft above me and I was trying to heave a 500mm around above my head.
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I suppose we could bungy it off a ridge - that would be green The RAF is searching for its next generation of light flying training aircraft that must be more environmentally friendly and produces a zero carbon emission at the point of use |
Every poster so far: change is bad ☹️
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Originally Posted by jriv
(Post 11075666)
Every poster so far: change is bad ☹️
The idea that reducing emissions will be cheap and easy is delusional. Lithium batteries have about a sixtieth of the energy density of JetA1. Its called physics. It trumps wishful thinking every time. |
Originally Posted by TukwillaFlyboy
(Post 11075676)
No, just a pragmatic , and amusing,response from experienced people.
The idea that reducing emissions will be cheap and easy is delusional. Lithium batteries have about a sixtieth of the energy density of JetA1. Its called physics. It trumps wishful thinking every time. |
Not aimed at anyone in particular, more a musing, but the argument that it isn’t cheap or easy and therefore shouldn’t be considered is mystifying to me.
Without aiming to beat expensive and difficult challenges little if anything would have been achieved by the human race. No agricultural revolution, no industrial revolution, no technological revolution. it confuses me even more when it is wielded by allegedly ‘experienced’ individuals. The self same individuals who have spent a lifetime utilising the success stories from others struggles to overcome difficult and expensive problems. Naturally there are legion failures to accompany every success but without trying we will never succeed at anything. |
Originally Posted by artyhug
(Post 11075746)
Not aimed at anyone in particular, more a musing, but the argument that it isn’t cheap or easy and therefore shouldn’t be considered is mystifying to me.
Without aiming to beat expensive and difficult challenges little if anything would have been achieved by the human race. No agricultural revolution, no industrial revolution, no technological revolution. it confuses me even more when it is wielded by allegedly ‘experienced’ individuals. The self same individuals who have spent a lifetime utilising the success stories from others struggles to overcome difficult and expensive problems. Naturally there are legion failures to accompany every success but without trying we will never succeed at anything. All successful revolutions increase economic utility , not decrease it. The obsession with reducing emissions at all costs is going to lead to really dumb and expensive mistakes. |
Thank you for so eloquently proving my point.
I give up. |
Originally Posted by TukwillaFlyboy
(Post 11075750)
You might want to look up the concept of economic utility.
All successful revolutions increase economic utility , not decrease it. The obsession with reducing emissions at all costs is going to lead to really dumb and expensive mistakes. |
Originally Posted by beardy
(Post 11075760)
It depends on where you consider the boundaries of the system, wallet, house, town, etc.. up to global. The utility lies in saving the climate, the cost may be high but economically justified if it preserves mankind. Yes there well may be dumb mistakes along the way, but that shouldn't stop the effort.
It just should be rational. Where I live people are installing solar panels that will have a capacity factor of 15% if they are lucky. Because of a feed in tariff , which the Government is being forced to reduce by economic reality , and Government subsidy. Because its popular. But also dumb and expensive. That might work for a while in wealthy first world countries but its not the future. |
https://www.flyer.co.uk/aura-aero-to...ic-two-seater/
Solved. Expect OBE by return mail. Endurance issues easily solved; just hook a bunch up to tow behind a Voyager and recharge by windmilling prop. |
This line in the Market Report struck me as curious - There is no intention to launch a formal DASA competition as a result of this Market Exploration.
So, is the RAF going to field a zero emissions trainer or not? |
Should the Geneva Convention be adjusted to limit environmental emissions in war?
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Originally Posted by TukwillaFlyboy
(Post 11075676)
No, just a pragmatic , and amusing,response from experienced people.
The idea that reducing emissions will be cheap and easy is delusional. Lithium batteries have about a sixtieth of the energy density of JetA1. Its called physics. It trumps wishful thinking every time.
Originally Posted by TukwillaFlyboy
(Post 11075750)
You might want to look up the concept of economic utility.
All successful revolutions increase economic utility , not decrease it. The obsession with reducing emissions at all costs is going to lead to really dumb and expensive mistakes. The frontline will be carbon fuelled through 2050 through we may see synthetic fuels replace fossil sources. And that's okay because military necessity justifies the cost. But UAS and AEF flying won't have the same licence to operate. They'll have new generations of students and cadets looking for zero emissions and if the RAF is not ready to rise to that challenge then we will all be poorer for it (remembering that the primary purpose of UAS and air cadets is encourage air-mindedness , not recruitment). |
I have a virtually zero carbon solution. A good old fashioned wood and canvas glider. We could use the growing of the materials to offset any carbon. To launch we go back to the ridge idea but this time a cliff, Build a launch ramp out of wood - more carbon offset. To launch we tie a length of hemp rope, more carbon offset, to a scrap Tesla battery for poetic justice. Pass the rope over a pulley and attach the other end to the Ottfur on the glider. Balance the battery on the lip of the ramp then give it a gentle nudge so it falls off, launching the glider into the air. I reckon that is as near zero carbon at the point of use as you can get. I call it the Colditz system.
To retrieve the launch cable, a light line previously attached to the cable near the pulley on the glider side, could be lowered down the cliff. Tie an empty canvas bucket to the other end. As the battery plummets the bucket rises. To get the battery back, fill the bucket with water, we may need a sizeable bucket but it is canvass so not too difficult to make. Bucket falls, battery rises. When bucket hits the bottom, the water spills out and we are good to go again. As green as they come I reckon! Sometimes I even surprise myself. :ok: Now where's my Herbert Lott? |
Dear Sir I write this note to inform you of my plight
And at the time of writing I am not a pretty sight My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly gray I write this note to tell why Paddy's not at work today While working on the fourteenth floor, some bricks I had to clear And to throw them down from off the top seemed quite a good idea But the gaffer wasn't very pleased, he was an awful sod He said I had to cart them down the ladder in me hod. Well clearing all those bricks by hand, it seemed so very slow So I hoisted up a barrel and secured the rope below But in my haste to do the job, I was too blind to see That a barrel full of building bricks is heavier than me. So when I had untied the rope, the barrel fell like lead And clinging tightly to the rope I started up instead I took off like a rocket and to my dismay I found That half way up I met the bloody barrel coming down. Well the barrel broke my shoulder as on to the ground it sped And when I reached the top I banged the pulley with me head I held on tight, though numb with shock from this almighty blow And the barrel spilled out half its load fourteen floors below Now when those building bricks fell from the barrel to the floor I then outweighed the barrel so I started down once more I held on tightly to the rope as I flew to the ground And I landed on those building bricks that were scattered all around. Now as I lay there on the deck I thought I'd passed the worst But when the barrel reached the top, that's when the bottom burst A shower of bricks came down on me, I knew I had no hope In all of this confusion, I let go the bloody rope. The barrel being heavier, it started down once more And landed right on top of me as I lay on the floor It broke three ribs and my left arm, and I can only say That I hope you'll understand why Paddy's not at work today. |
Originally Posted by ninja-lewis
(Post 11075811)
But UAS and AEF flying won't have the same licence to operate. They'll have new generations of students and cadets looking for zero emissions and if the RAF is not ready to rise to that challenge then we will all be poorer for it (remembering that the primary purpose of UAS and air cadets is encourage air-mindedness , not recruitment).
The UAS' will shift, why do they need to fly as much as they do? These days they are more direct recruitment than air mindedness, the Studes are all set on an RAF career and know they'll be in sims, so don't expect actual flying. |
Originally Posted by Ninthace
(Post 11075826)
I have a virtually zero carbon solution. A good old fashioned wood and canvas glider. We could use the growing of the materials to offset any carbon. To launch we go back to the ridge idea but this time a cliff, Build a launch ramp out of wood - more carbon offset. To launch we tie a length of hemp rope, more carbon offset, to a scrap Tesla battery for poetic justice. Pass the rope over a pulley and attach the other end to the Ottfur on the glider. Balance the battery on the lip of the ramp then give it a gentle nudge so it falls off, launching the glider into the air. I reckon that is as near zero carbon at the point of use as you can get. I call it the Colditz system.
To retrieve the launch cable, a light line previously attached to the cable near the pulley on the glider side, could be lowered down the cliff. Tie an empty canvas bucket to the other end. As the battery plummets the bucket rises. To get the battery back, fill the bucket with water, we may need a sizeable bucket but it is canvass so not too difficult to make. Bucket falls, battery rises. When bucket hits the bottom, the water spills out and we are good to go again. As green as they come I reckon! Sometimes I even surprise myself. :ok: Now where's my Herbert Lott? But what about the fuel you would burn excavating cliffs all over the UK.? |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 11075847)
But what about the fuel you would burn excavating cliffs all over the UK.?
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Pasta, you beat me to it .:)
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TukwillaFlyboy,
Gerard Hoffnung - The Bricklayer’s Lament. Full album including the above and much more. |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11075935)
TukwillaFlyboy,
Gerard Hoffnung - The Bricklayer’s Lament. https://youtu.be/zZUJLO6lMhI Full album including the above and much more. https://youtu.be/zYaKjDrq2-g |
Why not make all that warlike stuff zero emission.
Helicopters Fast jets, transport, F-35's (whatever they are). The Battle of Britain flight. Then the rest of MOD, High ranks, Ships (they could tow gliders), motor transport, and what about the Nuclear weapons ? |
Not sure about ZERO emissions :} but got to be close. Nothing like a bungy launch :)
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