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Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine?
An anonymous reader writes "Using the same physics principles as submarines, a new company is planning a fuelless air ship. Recent advances in ultra light and strong materials are making this concept a practical reality." There's no question that changes in buoyancy can be used to propel a vehicle, but "fuelless" is going to be tricky.
Wouldn't something in the air be a Supermarine?
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Fuelless falling.
Using the same physics principles as submarines, a new company is planning a fuelless air ship.
Isn't a fuelless air submarine usually called a "balloon"?
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It's a little creepy that this website looks like this other famous site and that they both advocate leaving the earth for a long trip in a high-tech airship. Coincidence?
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To save on the compressed air, just fill me full of mexican food, and I could provide a cheap source of propulsion. Or we can outsource that to Mumbai.
Because you never know when you might run out of air up there!
You know... there's another name for flying without fuel. Its called skydiving!
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That reminds me of the old joke back in the Navy... I think it went: There are more airplanes in the oceans than submarines in the sky.
I guess that's no longer true. :-)
The aircraft, still in development, will be similar to a submarine that changes its buoyancy, a form of gravity, to float on the surface of the sea or cruise 300 ft below it.
What's scarrier, flying without an engine, or that the general public won't think twice about this sentence?
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