Duck! It's A Low-Flying Gigaplane
from the but-can-you-fish-from-it? dept
It seems that Boeing is working on a project to build the world's largest plane with a wing span of almost 600 feet. That's not the most interesting part, though. The plane is being designed to fly over water at a constant altitude of 20 feet. Not 20,000, but 20. Two-zero. Apparently, it will make use of the "ground effect" that is caused by a low flying plane creating pressure which helps to push the plane, decreasing the drag, and giving it much better mileage.
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Are they on crack or what?
A 40-foot rogue wave can appear in the calmest of seas. It's caused by the resonance effect of smaller waves combining to form a bigger wave. Blub blub blub, there goes a thousand soldiers and ten tanks.
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Another issue would be bird strikes. Will the Pelican hit a pelican and turn the passengers into pelican food?
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Found this on the web:
As a rule of thumb, Ground Effect is accepted as being up to 1 1/2 times wing span, expressed as height above surface. However, at heights greater than half the chord length the craft tends to be less efficient.
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