Aircar
Well-Known Member
I have noted previously that the overall heading of this section of HBA is mostly honoured in the breach viz. "emerging new technology that might revolutionize our sport " -in practice most of the threads in this section are not about anything remotely 'revolutionary' so I thought that a SPECIFIC thread (with links to those posts or other threads that are potentially 'revolutionary' might be of value and isolate from the 'how to' material.
Maybe a definition of what is considered 'revolutionary' should be the starting point.- not having a dictionary handy I would venture to include those things that might RADICALLY lower the cost of flight (dollars and man hours together ) that might bring flight within reach of many many more people than now (in the literal and metaphorical senses) that employ new scientific principles (eg Henryk's vortex lift theory of his colleagues or the single line power transmission)
that might expand the flight envelope enough to give more capabilities (more speed is unlikely to do much for anything but very much LESS (minimum speed) might open up new opportunities for operation outside of airports for example , new powerplants and fuels,new materials or processes, new aerodynamic devices and any sort of innovation that yields something that opens new threshold as examples. Defining what the barriers are also defines the breakthroughs of those barriers--so the desiradata must come first.
But MOSTLY this thread should be NOTHING BUT truly revolutionary inovations or advances and steer away from shop issues or
how to' in the fabricate or analysis sense --maybe it is best encapsulated as the 'synthesis' thread rather than analysis. "what to" rather than 'how to'
Maybe links to the existing HBA dtabase as meeting the spirit of this concept and other's criteria and thoughts would be the best start. over to you.
Maybe a definition of what is considered 'revolutionary' should be the starting point.- not having a dictionary handy I would venture to include those things that might RADICALLY lower the cost of flight (dollars and man hours together ) that might bring flight within reach of many many more people than now (in the literal and metaphorical senses) that employ new scientific principles (eg Henryk's vortex lift theory of his colleagues or the single line power transmission)
that might expand the flight envelope enough to give more capabilities (more speed is unlikely to do much for anything but very much LESS (minimum speed) might open up new opportunities for operation outside of airports for example , new powerplants and fuels,new materials or processes, new aerodynamic devices and any sort of innovation that yields something that opens new threshold as examples. Defining what the barriers are also defines the breakthroughs of those barriers--so the desiradata must come first.
But MOSTLY this thread should be NOTHING BUT truly revolutionary inovations or advances and steer away from shop issues or
how to' in the fabricate or analysis sense --maybe it is best encapsulated as the 'synthesis' thread rather than analysis. "what to" rather than 'how to'
Maybe links to the existing HBA dtabase as meeting the spirit of this concept and other's criteria and thoughts would be the best start. over to you.