Timeline for Is it possible to lift a ship sized vehicle into the sky by following modern day aerodynamics and aircraft design?
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 9:37 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | It is important to note, that a sea-borne carrier is intentionally built from heavy materials for stability, so an air-borne carrier of similar size could probably have significantly lower weight. | |
| Oct 10, 2015 at 0:44 | comment | added | Mark | @RalphJ, an Essex-class carrier displaces about a third what a Nimitz-class carrier does, so about a third as many -- or in concrete numbers, it looks like 26 SRBs. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 18:22 | comment | added | Ralph J♦ | How many SRB's from the space shuttle would it take to lift a SMALL (WW II era) carrier? Disregarding all requirements for a soft landing... | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 17:17 | comment | added | Dave | I did not know the fuel burn for the GE90 but you are correct that the calculations are missing. Another 500, no big deal ;) | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 16:56 | comment | added | Simon | You haven't calculated the fuel. You need another 500 engines, or some such plucked from my patooty number, to lift the fuel for the other 2000. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 15:49 | comment | added | Andy | Mount the engines along the sides (facing out) and deflect the thrust downwards. That might make the structure hot though... | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 15:45 | comment | added | fooot | Adding 2,000 GE90 engines will also add at least an additional 40,000,000 lb of weight, not considering all the support structure and equipment needed, and then considering the thrust decreases with altitude... | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 15:01 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:51 | comment | added | Dave | Its not impossible at all, the weight is very quantifiable and the thrust requirements are easily calculated. While we may not be able to achieve it with modern avionics that does not mean that it would not be possible. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:50 | comment | added | Antzi | ... Come on it's just impossible, and you know it. Of course with infinite power you can achieve anything, but we live in a finite world. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:47 | history | edited | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:05 | comment | added | GdD | is right, you could in theory lift just about anything if you solve the material and power problems. Why you would want to is beyond me though, all you'd be doing is floating a big target. | |
| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:05 | vote | accept | Muralidhar | ||
| Oct 9, 2015 at 13:57 | history | answered | Dave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |