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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Above the text is the ”V”-shaped flying wing, what has been made for investigating the atmosphere of other planets. And of course, it can be investigated Earth's atmosphere. Those flying wings use normally hybrid motors, and in the daylight, they will use solar panels to use electric motors. This technology allows flying extreme high altitude. Electric motors don't need air, and that makes them very useful in high-flying airplanes. Also, those "flying wings might have the down looking blowers, what gives it the VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and landing capacity).
Those flying wings have another affection, what people almost ever thought. This affection is that those motors don't leave the infrared signature on those machines. And if those ”flying wings” are made by STEALTH-material the radars cannot see them. Those electric motor-using flying wings can patrol even months in skies. And when we are thinking about ”UFO-sightings”, where people have seen ”V”-shaped object in the skies, could that object be that kind of STEALTH-drone.
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When we are thinking about those aircraft, we must say that they might have attention light at the bottom, what warns other airplanes about this vehicle. Those ”flying wings” can collect the information about communication and radar signals. They might also have radars and lidars (Laser-scanners) to support their missions, and they can locate underground bunkers and submarines, what are dived under the sea. They can also guide laser-guided projectiles to the target, and send the real-time picture of battlefields to the commanders of the task force.
Those ”flying wing” -shaped ”Predators” would also operate in civil missions. They can meter the ice cab and take ozone- and other sir samples from very high altitude. And of course, those systems can observe many things in the terrain areas. Some of those test planes could be used as the test beds for the most exotic propulsion systems, where capillary would suck the air thru the turbine wheel, and that kind of propulsion can be used also in the night time. In the real world, those electric engines can also load from another plane, by using electric wire. The only thing what is different with this and hydrocarbons is that there is connected the electric socket to another plane when normal airborne refueller pumps hydrocarbon to another plane.
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The prototype of those airplanes was ”Helios”, the flying wing, what was created by NASA. That flying wing was the first solar-powered airplane in the world, and it raised in very high altitude. The purpose of ”Helios” was to operate as the solar-power aircraft demonstrator, where has tested the materials and motors about those aircraft, what has very long operation time. The problem of solar power aircraft is, that those things need sunlight for their operations. But if there would be the capacity to give electric power to that system from another airplane, the operation capacity of those would be increased. And the most exotic way to create electric power would be used capillary, what sucks air thru the turbine wheel, and rotates generators inside those drones. Also RTG:s (Radio Thermal Generators) could be used, but those systems need special security, and the cesium-batteries are very expensive. The green power must not be reported to Nuclear authorities, and that's why it seems to have more capacity than RTG:s.
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