Sky cruise Hotel

[Frank S]

While we are talking about ridiculous things, we were talking about ridiculous things weren't we
Take a look at this.

https://www.lifestyleasia.com/kl/tra...hotel-details/

[bruce.desertrat]

What could POSSIBLY go wrong with a flying nuclear-powered cruise ship. Sounds like a really bad 1970's disaster movie.

[Frank S]

What could POSSIBLY go wrong with a flying nuclear-powered cruise ship. Sounds like a really bad 1970's disaster movie.

Try the 1950's. Convair later renamed General Dynamics, now named Lockheed. back in the mid through late 1950's was involved in the ANP program they developed the ConvairNB-36H is to date the only American aircraft to carry an operational nuclear reactor. My Uncle who lived about 2 miles from us went to work for Convair in 1949. Retired from Lockheed Martain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convai...tional_history

[schuylergrace]

Hahahahaha! They forgot to tell us about the Magic Drag Eliminating Force Field (MDEFF) surrounding the plane and keeping all the elevators and such out of the wind. That thing looks like a bigger brick than the space shuttle! And I love how the vertical tail is just there to hold up a fancy, panoramic restaurant. Who needs to yaw?

[Frank S]

Hahahahaha! They forgot to tell us about the Magic Drag Eliminating Force Field (MDEFF) surrounding the plane and keeping all the elevators and such out of the wind. That thing looks like a bigger brick than the space shuttle! And I love how the vertical tail is just there to hold up a fancy, panoramic restaurant. Who needs to yaw?

If you will stop the video at the 0.55 mark you will see there has been an attempt to add most of the avionic surfaces and functions. Small flaps on the wings, ailerons and rudder on the vertical and horizontal stabilizer, No slats of the forward surface of the wing. What I was seeing though was the lip service paid to a biplane design of the wings. I say this because they are too close together relative to the aircraft using the term loosely, to me that looked more to be just a place to mount more engine pods rather than offer any real lift surface. If they are just going to rely on brute force to get the behemoth off the ground with those short stubby wings then they are going to need a 50 mile long runway or the lower pods are going to have to have directional thrust control probably both.
The aircraft carrier in the Marvel comics movie would have a better chance of getting airborne than that thing IMO.

[schuylergrace]

If you will stop the video at the 0.55 mark you will see there has been an attempt to add most of the avionic surfaces and functions. Small flaps on the wings, ailerons and rudder on the vertical and horizontal stabilizer, No slats of the forward surface of the wing. What I was seeing though was the lip service paid to a biplane design of the wings. I say this because they are too close together relative to the aircraft using the term loosely, to me that looked more to be just a place to mount more engine pods rather than offer any real lift surface. If they are just going to rely on brute force to get the behemoth off the ground with those short stubby wings then they are going to need a 50 mile long runway or the lower pods are going to have to have directional thrust control probably both.
The aircraft carrier in the Marvel comics movie would have a better chance of getting airborne than that thing IMO.

What I was referring to by "elevators" was the use of external, people-moving elevators on the "plane," not the control surfaces. I guess they didn't want to take up space inside, so they just hung them on the exterior. Of course, that wouldn't make the craft's drag much worse than all the other stuff hanging out there in the breeze.

[Frank S]

They just thought the space shuttle was a gliding brick. Not sure how they came up with the term flying brick for the move because it never was anything more than a glider on its return and little more than a ballistic missile on its way up. I wouldn't exactly say it ever actually flew the way I look at things. Rocket ships don't fly they are blasted they fall or the glide

[JoeVanGeaux]

The only thing missing was the "BAZINGA" at the end of the video.

[dbat74]

Nuclear power is the safest form of power we have, and I would definitely do this. Just have to take out another mortgage.