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Darth Skepticus
Topic: Futuristic Aircraft
Hi I am writing Alpha Omega, sci fiction tale set on future Earth.

But I have been looking thru many aircraft and I see that I am rather restrict to the archtypal plane shape or helicopter

Cause I am an budding artist too and I don't very much want to be uncreative.... But I need a lesson on planes and aerodynamics and I do not wish to bend the rules like Star Wars aircraft.

Star Destroyers will crash airports if it were to land and they don't have wheels beneath them, weird....

I just wonder how did that thing manage to get the lift to fly anyway?!!!!

Let discuss on realistic but futuristic aircraft design

Zeppilins are welcome too as well as supersonics.....

#1 Oct 18th 2007, 9:03pm
Monev11235
I don't understand how a Star Destroyer could land in an environment with gravity, simply because it lacks the necessary things for landing (and would crush one of its shield generators beneath its own weight, if one is to believe the Rogue Squadron games; it's the lowest point on the bottom of it).

Creativity point number one: if something is constructed in space, for space, with no intention of entering an atmospheric environment, that means it has no need to be aerodynamic; if it is sufficiently important for a custom dock, you can go pretty much insane with it.

Creativity point number two: in space, "up" and "down" do not exist. Therefore, a radially oriented spacecraft makes much more sense than such an aircraft - again, especially if it's never entering an atmosphere.

#2 Oct 19th 2007, 4:39am
Darth Skepticus
WEll ok I am planning to design aircraft that are believable that means it cutting thru our atmosphere. I am leaving those wheeless spaceships and aircraft to Mr. George Lucas. I am going on the believable section. I am doing some research on vehicle too....
#3 Oct 19th 2007, 5:19am
Monev11235
Ahh. Yeah, my advice doesn't do much for atmospheric flight. Heh. I'm just a sucker for space-only specialization, I think.

For actually aircraft... I have no idea, really. The need to have some degree of aerodynamics, lift by Bernoulli's Principle (generally), and the need to be able to land would be your only limiting factors, but that's more than it sounds like.

#4 Oct 19th 2007, 5:24am

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