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Kimmo Huosionmaa
We always talk about MDD (Magneto Dynamic Drive) as the engine solution for interstellar travel, but this so-called WARP engine might have more conventional solutions than some interstellar or even interplanetary spacecraft. This magnetic accelerator can also installed in normal fighter or other fast aircraft. In this solution, the WARP drive would use together with normal jet turbines.
The solution could be that the accelerator would install inside jet turbines, and that would increase the speed of the aircraft or otherwise it would decrease the loss of fuel during the flight. In this solution, WARP engine would not give the speed of light for the normal fighter, but when it drives the air thru the motor, it would allow handling one of the biggest problems of high power jet engines.
The overheating is always the danger in the ultra speed flight, and if the trunk will stand the heat, would the turbines overheat. One of the solutions for overheating of the trunk would be that from the nose of aircraft would pumped air, what would be moving slower than the air, what is outside of this air layer by the surface of the airplane.
But if the WARP motors are able to use in the atmosphere, would the airplane need otherwise more conventional technology than before. In this scenario in the aircraft would be turbogenerator, and the electric wires would connect to WARP-tube. This would give very good speed for the airplane when it operates in the atmosphere. This might be the suitable motor solution for small size space shuttle, what might have the capacity to maneuver in space and atmosphere. Or the electricity would transfer to that shuttle by using microwaves. Also, radio-masers can deliver energy for that WARP-driven shuttle.
Normally the spacecraft would get the needed power from fuel cells, and if they are powerful enough, they would be able to make enough electricity for WARP. This chemical version is not so powerful, that the spacecraft or aircraft would get the speed of light. The speed of WARP depends on the power of electricity. If the chemical combustion would not make so high voltage, that this plane would get the speed, what is needed even for interplanetary missions, but it would have the capacity to operate in the Earth orbiter.
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