DARPA this week announced that Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun building an aircraft that can maneuver without the need for traditional flight control surfaces.
Through the CRANE initiative, DARPA and Aurora are trying to break the mold of a feature foundational to aviation’s century-plus existence. Whereas aircraft have been operated with flight control surfaces — e.g. flaps and rudders — the CRANE drone is being designed to instead leverage pressurized air using active flow control (AFC) actuators to shape an aircraft’s flight.
The unmanned vehicle itself could fly as soon as summer 2025.
Ionisiation drag system would be genius. With AFC you could turn the aeroplane on its own axis and change bearing nearly instantaneously, with advanced air ionization system you could modify air density to change elevation. This is essentially a ghetto UFO.
GLAS (gust load alleviation system) is designed using Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control techniques [sic] for fly by wire.
This is genius, its reinventing the concept of the wing by exerting lift, applied as a mechanical force without the need for additional and conventional mechanical mechanisms. It's akin to removing the home button from iPhones. Remember that every switch or mechanical device is a potential break point.
Well replacing one simple mechanical part with a complex one doesn't make it less vulnerable to failure. Otherwise it's a decent movement in innovation that will never likely be used for anything in reality like most cool ideas that failed horribly in practice throughout aviation history.
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 04:29:37 ago (+1/-0)
Well replacing one simple mechanical part with a complex one doesn't make it less vulnerable to failure.
It definitely will.
All mechanical switches have a lifespan, with slight adjustment of tolerances can severely reduce the lifespan of that mechanical part. With fewer moving parts, there are fewer opportunities for mechanical failure, leading to increased reliability of the entire product. It is only exacerbated by environmental factors such as vibration, heat, and humidity, above other considerations like fatigue loading over its lifetime with general wear and tear.
By simply removing the mechanical part, you ultimately remove a common point of failure. The point of failure is now not zero, but if a switch can be manipulated for example 40M times over its lifetime in perfect conditions, you absolutely remove this point of guaranteed future failure.
And how many parts does this new tech have or is it magic, sure used a lot of words to try and be right about something that isn't even being discussed.
Well there were reports again by Berlin few days ago about aerial espionage over German military bases by presumed Russian drones, and despite all tech they are unable to do anything against that... so this made me check, bc actually could be using this tech right now, and not necessarily Russians, but could also be US doing it for training.
Magic is here I think in very short times used, doing something so fast that others can't see: You can do the trick with virtual particles.
Virtual particles are real in their super-short time interval of existence. So, if you use a high enough frequency EM field on them, microwave short enough to catch them in their non-virtual state in reality, you get real Lorentz forces. So you can use those Lorentz forces for propulsion whenever you want, regardless of outside conditions, even in vacuum if needed to. But, (I'm guessing here) same laws can be used in opposite way for hiding something from today's usual counter-drone tech too - I'm just guessing here of course. But I have a feeling this magic will be used in future much more, and for sure it's interesting.
[ + ] UncleDoug
[ - ] UncleDoug 0 points 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 02:37:58 ago (+1/-1)
Ionisiation drag system would be genius. With AFC you could turn the aeroplane on its own axis and change bearing nearly instantaneously, with advanced air ionization system you could modify air density to change elevation. This is essentially a ghetto UFO.
This is genius, its reinventing the concept of the wing by exerting lift, applied as a mechanical force without the need for additional and conventional mechanical mechanisms. It's akin to removing the home button from iPhones. Remember that every switch or mechanical device is a potential break point.
So how far are we from Hydromagnetics?
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Propulsion
10/10 post OP, more of this content and less retarded bible passages from users would be amazing.
[ + ] mxcviel
[ - ] mxcviel [op] 1 point 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 02:50:04 ago (+1/-0)
but yeah, I was thinking about UFOs too with this one.
[ + ] FacelessOne
[ - ] FacelessOne 1 point 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 03:55:28 ago (+1/-0)
Nazi floating bell is cooler.
[ + ] UncleDoug
[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 04:29:37 ago (+1/-0)
It definitely will.
All mechanical switches have a lifespan, with slight adjustment of tolerances can severely reduce the lifespan of that mechanical part.
With fewer moving parts, there are fewer opportunities for mechanical failure, leading to increased reliability of the entire product.
It is only exacerbated by environmental factors such as vibration, heat, and humidity, above other considerations like fatigue loading over its lifetime with general wear and tear.
By simply removing the mechanical part, you ultimately remove a common point of failure. The point of failure is now not zero, but if a switch can be manipulated for example 40M times over its lifetime in perfect conditions, you absolutely remove this point of guaranteed future failure.
[ + ] FacelessOne
[ - ] FacelessOne 1 point 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 13:05:39 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] mxcviel
[ - ] mxcviel [op] 0 points 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 17:22:07 ago (+0/-0)
Magic is here I think in very short times used, doing something so fast that others can't see: You can do the trick with virtual particles.
Virtual particles are real in their super-short time interval of existence.
So, if you use a high enough frequency EM field on them, microwave short enough to catch them in their non-virtual state in reality, you get real Lorentz forces. So you can use those Lorentz forces for propulsion whenever you want, regardless of outside conditions, even in vacuum if needed to.
But, (I'm guessing here) same laws can be used in opposite way for hiding something from today's usual counter-drone tech too - I'm just guessing here of course.
But I have a feeling this magic will be used in future much more, and for sure it's interesting.
[ + ] FacelessOne
[ - ] FacelessOne 0 points 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 19:02:21 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] mxcviel
[ - ] mxcviel [op] 0 points 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 20:33:38 ago (+0/-0)
yeah, specially in war :)
[ + ] UncleDoug
[ - ] UncleDoug 0 points 4 monthsJan 8, 2024 17:57:56 ago (+0/-0)