The Kleinair Passenger Jet

What would a man do if he wanted to produce maximum thrust required to launch a plane quickly?

Let’s call it the 7-passenger Kleinjet. Substantial force is required. I would install in it a water splitting hydrogen power plant, which would consume the water used in combustion. There is much hydrogen in water so it should be sufficient and well worth any weight necessary to carry.

A conventional combustion engine will not be sufficient, because they would only be useful for kinetic energy such as spinning a prop or turbine. A turbine is not fast enough. A scramjet is a far better choice and can efficiently transport a jet to Mach 7. The Kleinjet could have small turbines to approach scram threshhold speed of about 250mph. Or it could have rockets to get it there faster, but use more fuel. Since it’s water fuel, I believe we will prefer rockets.

The hydrogen would be split and dumped into the cone where sparking elements would ignite it. The cone could be made somewhat directionalizing. That fulcrum of force would be like a pool table’s bumper internal to the plane on force, and function like a wing flap with air forcibly pushed from it. This is very useful, even at only a few degrees, and is well worth jointing the thruster. The air intake for the engine could also be drawn from any of 360* around the jet, affecting pressure and force on the body.

Additionally there should be flaps and positionable wings. The wings would be flaps, and could yaw slightly. This robotic mechanism may become a hassle and high maintenance, and malfunction could be deadly. It will also experience high force pressure. How can it be made simple?

Secondary wings. The plane will be equipped with smaller normal wings primarily for lift, but also with normal flaps. Then there should be smaller secondary wings positioned above the first set that will form shapeable wind tunnels with the first set. These second wings will be like large freefloating flaps. They will also be retractable into the body. So basically they will form a GI tube or plane with the fuselage.

Combined with a fulcrum jet, this will be nanofantastic.

The jet in the back will be assisted by a bottom mounted scram. Both could fire at once, but the jet would be outpaced by the scram. The jet could assist scram-level steering, or disengage entirely. An aerodynamic computer would translate control input to appropriate and G-safe flap and jet action when at high speeds. Tweakable? Manual override?

The smoother the surface is, the less drag there will be. I want to try deionizing the air surrounding the plane and see if that will affect turbulance or push away bits of pollution or chaff. It may favorably or uniformly affect air viscosity. If we can get ionized particles to vibrate around the plane it may affect shock wave formation and the turbulent layer.

It might be good to get a very powerful em field going on several meters to hundreds of meters in front of the nose of the jet, and to em monitor the upcoming air content.

Note the comparison between shock diamonds and the Rubens Tube fire bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyIphO4Ypoo It’s the same thing. Embed:

At such high speeds, I would expect air to react as a solid to any change in flow shape. The functional frequency of the [moving] event would be highly intensified and changes to the system would be dynamic at a high refresh rate.

This could have effects on laminar or turbulent flow. A turbulence is an unchecked vibration, similar to radiation in an atom. It will cause the plane’s force to leave the area, which could take the form of speed alone, but which will also reduce the plane’s wave constitution.

Materials. I may want to make the plane’s body from carbon fiber. This may be sufficient tensile material and light enough to ensure that it won’t shatter during manoeuvers. This could be gilded with aluminum or possibly copper to enhance em conduction.

Also, would it be meaningful to microwave the burning fuel as it is leaving the scramjet? I have read that it becomes plasma, which could produce quite a shock wave. If this wave could be resonated with appropriately it might increase speed dramatically, even on top of combusting hydrogen. Embed:

“flying through time”

Hmm. From M0.8 to M1.2 the coefficient of drag increases by 300%. This is similar to cod at 50-55mph doubling by 70mph. A meaningful curve is established. Could ionizing air ahead of the plane affect pressure or drag?

A circular wing would technically be even better than a delta wing. It could encompass the whole plane and there’d be a fuselage line or ridge down the middle. Either the fulcrum jet would stick out from the rear portion, or would be encapsulated in a more ovoid open rear portion. The air supply could be inducted more from either the top or bottom to motivate manoeuverability in addition to fulcrum.

Whitcomb’s rule causes certain areas of the plane’s aerodynamics to break mach before the whole plane does. This makes leaping into mach more difficult and produces considerable drag. It will be easier if the plane has low drag or performs this quickly.

It may be meaningful for the plane to be shaped like a disc more than a missile. The disc can slope up airflow even around wide points to provide zero corners, except the one at the front ridge of the plane. This would be good and could outperform a square or triangular style plane body.

http://unisci.com/stories/20014/1022011.htm This article on shock absorption could also potentially be useful, and a kind of coating to the body of the plane could reduce impact. This may be less useful considering the continual bombardment of air during travel, or require dynamic adaptation to the force.

The jet engine on this machine would probably not need to be far greater than 3 tons of thrust to approach the scramzone quickly. From there, the scramjet engine without possible microwave would produce many many tons of force and become the main driving principle, while the fulcum engine and GI plane would steer. The scram portion may also be shiftable on a slight degree basis.

And I’d add dynamic aerodynamic or navigational robotic response in the event of failures.

It may be meaningful to have a sensitive em field detection system either in aircraft or on the ground to determine the presence of electrical or magnetic anomolies. This could detect the operating systems of other planes or magnetic particles, or other em pulses fields or signals.

I don’t particularly feel the need to make this plane as manoeuverable as it has become. The fulcrum jet may be a nice feature. The GI wing portion is probably not required. The scram could also be tiltable by maybe up to 4-5*, but even that is probably not required, and traveling very rapidly in a straight line is most likely the greatest asset of this plane.

A very manoeuverable jet might be cool for fun, but it is probably not necessary to make it break the transonic zone. I might call that the Miniklein and move this model to midlevel passenger 'production'.

Next up: Miniklein and Kleinair secondary analysis, environmental standard improvements for conventional jets, more of the Midairport Craft Carrier/Lander, and the cement boots of capitalism on old fleets.