Ok! so now we took this scketch out of Tinkerbells notes to show you what the prototype mite be configured to possibly
look like with the circular wing that creates the simple dum stupid philosophy behind aircraft design anology in introspective
of a complicated transatmosphric interplanetary concept in manned avenues to space flight. Now you have to build it!
You can see if you look closely the question about the scram jets (those square boxes in the
rearward sub-wing) Which way (forward or backward) do they operate to the front of the aircraft or to the back of the aircraft
or do they or can they operate both ways. If your the designer you must think now of conceving how the aircraft flys or what
they call the flight regiem operations. When will the scram jets start operating when will they shut down when will the big
ascent engine underneth the belly of Christafer Robin begin to operate and move from atmoshphere to the optimum operation
of the chemical ascent engine into orbit out of atmosphere and how much time operation running do you have to get to a safe
orbit.
How much fuel tank do you need for each engine and type of engine and where do you put it in your design.
First lets talk about what we know about the scram jet that you may of heard about or seen on
Cnn being tested and launched from a B-52. From Tinkerbells information although he has not seen any plans depicting the differant
parts or assemblies of the scram jet its noun-nomenclature or definition the word anyway goes back to the 1960's or 70's and
what itis intended to do is that normal jet engines have trouble developing thrust above mach 3 or 4 and it is designed to
operate above those mach numbers by ionizing the fuel and air mixture atomic number percepts to maximize its combustion and
through expansion in an aero dynamicly structured chamber produce thrust at mach numbers way above that of a super compressor
powered jet powerplant. its advantages are lots of thrust above normal critical mach numbers but and also uses pretty
much regular jet fuel with addatives but burns a tremendous amount of fuel in its operation. I suppose it also creates
a tremendous amount of heat also, an still needs atmosphere to operate.
So you can tell that the scram jet could or could not be the panacia for your airplane-spaceship
design and much depends of the discriptive flight operations concept in the airframe or other powerplant sources to the establishment
your particular design definition in statement.
As what my maintenance sargent mite say "plenty of button men but no mechanics" (Tink as
I sometimes have been refered to by my friend always so of remembered these things in his aviation education and drawing career
and wanted to become what is refered to as a know mechanic) or an ad from trade-a-plane said "wanted Airframe and Powerplant
mechanic wanted, parts changers need not apply you may already work here". these are all things in the back of Tinkerbells
mind when you see some of these drawings and the transcriptions about them.
Ok now lets talk about the size of aircraft-spaceship that we are building and its weight in
its various static and operational modes and the weight on the landing gear remember the type of landing gear and how it is
constructed and designed in the idea of Christafer Robin and Udets Platform one vehical has to come down and land more often
then the other vehical Christafer Robin the transatmospheric-interplanetary spaceship vehical once it has reached orbit stays
there and it is refited serviced and fueled (if possible) for long range deep space missions with its addition of gravity
containers brought up from the ground by Udets Platform.The landing gear should not have to be subjected to as rigoris operation
on one of the two vehicals because of its less of landings involved in its operational concepts. But never the less it could
be rather a super-large assembly with a major item sentence with in and the heavy weight of the aircraft-spaceship with propellants
on board at take off can bring you into the varying complexities of differant designs associated with each vehical. The landing
gear and the flight control system is very much considered part system of each other because of their intregal connection
to a Hydralic system that can include a large tank(fairley large anyway) and hollow tubing or piping about the airframe
to carry the fluid to its various work station syndicates about the aircraft the other differant types of flight and landing
gear systems associated with modern aircraft is fly by wire and the "ASI" unit systems ( I think they are called "ASI"or "ACI"
hydralic Im not exactly sure but they are very big and very expensive and they are located where the giant flight controls
are located in the design then simply put wired to the cockpit with electronic gagetry) which are giant vessals with
their resevours of hydralic fluid located right in them and attached wireing to the pilots control system these ("ASI") are
also located at the station of work so you don't have to have hydralic lines all over the aircraft.
The thing about the hyrdralic systems is that if your going to have a hydralic pump hydralic lines
that have to carry so much "PSI" in them usually, the "ASI" can produce more "PSI" then a simple hydralic lines attached to
some kind of auxillary power assembly unit, the "ASI" designed system which is pretty much self contained can carry more "PSI"
in its lines (Which by the way needs special lines to carry the extra load) and use less line plumming because its self contained
and located in the area of the work in the airframe design.
When you start to look at Christafer Robin though (or some of Udets Platform), you start to intel-ex-ualize
the commodity of design and these "ASI"s" systems are very expesive and how often are you going to use the flight controls
in outer space. You can see now why there is a notion to the prdicated statement of "Simple Dum and Stupid design theology
for aircraft.
Ok so now lets think a little bit and there's a couple of things that we want to discuss and
we sort of have to visualize a little bit ; pretend, that looking at the pictures above you visualize that the cockpit area
has one man in it just like the design of a World War Two Era propeller fighter plane. Where the pilots head is just behind
it will be the cockpit bridge area for when the aircraft flys backward in its flight operation mode and the little blister
bubbles on the cockpit sort of in the area of the control panel is where the pilots sit and have their controls for forward
flight.
The powerplant is the next thing we have to think about Tinkerbell thought about this for some
time and major assemblies are something to spend a little time comtemplating and you not only have to think about but also
if the poerplant system is experimental in concept then the next question is how experimental? And then you have figure how
it mite work (your concept) and you have to be able to assemble it and do maintenance on it,and when we talk about the giant
buildings to assemble and construct Christafer Robin and Udets Platform you have at least arrived and the great debating complex
of never been done before.
Also when you try to understand a little bit of the matter at hand and the discription
of the vehical (always if nothing else something to go on) as a muti-powerplant single (or dual) fuselage low wing monoplane
airframe,with chemical rockets forward operating pulse jets and giant turbine driveshaft propeller complex in the nose that
should try and have a red line operating factor for propeller RPM of 4500 to 5000. Then your swingin some mighty big props
and you have to have them be able to go into the featherd mode (a term about taking the pitch out of propellers in flight)
for rearward transonic stage operating to orbit. Could these differant powerplant units be connected to help one another or
should they be seperate? Can they drive the sub-auxillary power stations to power the flight control systems landing gear
and bioshere operations for the crew and how heavy is the machine.
When you think about gross weight,empty weight, maximimum take off weight, movement of the center
of gravity in the forward flight mode and then to think of it, to change flight operation mode to reverse flight plus the
burn ratio from ignition to full 100% operation of the main acsent engine to a safe orbit, w ith differant loads and or as
well as differant launches perscribed by each mission that no matter how cool your spaceship drawing is, thats alot to consider
and progress to success. Also when your in orbit can you refuel.Can Udets Platform carry up a tank full of presious highly
explosive propellant to drive its deep space power items.
I (Tinkerbell) was into thinking about using the old style airplane wing design to get the aircraft
off the runway.Their not only probably easier to build, but you may find it easier to put stuff in them and they build up
high pressure areas under the wing sooner with less airspeed and if you already have the design how much testing do you have
to do.
With the powerplant the idea is to build a structure that is strong enouph and can take
the vibrations among other things into the airframe that is light enouph to be considered for flight and Tinkerbell
he drew a picture of a large rounded compressor diffuser powered by two or three large jet engines in a tri-angle position
with a large drive-shaft running from the large diffuser compressor to the large propeller. Then you have to figure out
how to assemble your chosen design and and the large structures to build it.
Thats not all if you haven't had enouph of trying to work out the impossible or thought to be
the impossible task of designing and constructing an airplane-interplanetary spaceship that has to be somewhat accomplished
in order just to survive in a relatively short time. But you have to look at some of Tinkerbells other renderings as they
are called by my friend at the radio station in some of them they show what Tinkerbell describes as a saddle hanger
that has had several stages of drawing thought behind it. It shows something of a the star ship enterprise bridge perched
on a tower type structure and connected to a dolley the wheels on this dolly Tinkerbell invisioned are as big as the giant
tires of one of those great big specialy built dump trucks and connected to that is another dolley with wheels with a portable
auxilary ground station power unit giant cables and flexable piping connected the two of them together and to the aircraft
-spaceship along with these are giant jacking stations positioned around what are called the hard point in the structure
of the airplane space- ship the structure must be designed strong enouph to be jacked off the ground in the air so that
things like the landing gear retraction and extension can be tested and flight controls weight and balance for the differant
or varing loads associated with both forward and rearward flight operations. So you can see that the starship enterprise bridge
and the smaller bridge has its work cut out for there design station there not just there to look cool.
I think I'm going to stop for now on this page and think about my next one
which Im going to call Good Witch-Kraft Bad Witchcraft and here if i must say that to come up with this expession of
what he thought and thoughtfuly has discussed about this airplane spaceship design that I wouldn't of been able to do it if
I held to many anamosities toward to many peaple at one time I've read in books on Astrology that my sign Capricorn-cusp-Aquarius
is a very loving human indivigual that likes to catagorize phenomena in our world that other signs have establsihed to be
simply chaotic in nature but it underlines one of the things you don't want to do is get one mad at you they will clean your
clock so istutely you will never forget it. Tinkerbell Johnson!