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Any takers ?

Now I reckon I could get a steel made Nimitz class carrier displacing 102,300tons.... Using aluminium, a 50% reduction in build material volume and the use of light weight composites down to 18000tons....

So each rotor would need to be generating 10,081,200lbs of thrust.... that's a mind boggling number.

Oh really Leicester Uni ?

https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/pre ... in-the-sky

Well your weight estimation is well off !

bomber wrote:Now I reckon I could get a steel made Nimitz class carrier displacing 102,300tons.... Using aluminium, a 50% reduction in build material volume and the use of light weight composites down to 18000tons....

So each rotor would need to be generating 10,081,200lbs of thrust.... that's a mind boggling number.

You think if we were to apply these rotors to the scorpio, I could hop my 4Kft mount?

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