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From what I can see from a brief look at the concept, you have turned the gas turbine into a pulse jet engine. The idea of the gas turbine is to have Mass Flow, and to impart an acceleration to the gas stream. You would effectively kill mass flow if you start blocking off combustion chambers.

Secondly, have a look at the weight of your blocker doors and controls, and how that increase in weight will reduce the efficiency.

As stated, the engine does not work by pressure, so increasing the combustion chamber pressure would not help the efficiency of the engine.

Finally, by blocking off sets of combustion chambers (albeit sequentially) you are stopping the fundamental advantage of Gas Turbines in the fact that they have continuous combustion. They are constantly producing thrust and the process is only controlled by managing the amount of fuel burned, rather than altering the internal air pressures/flows.

Kindest regards, a Gas Turbine Engineer (and lecturer)

Try posting in the historic section too…

Wouldn’t cars/trucks be cheaper/cleaner/less noisey?

But utterly useless as a synthetic trainer. Believe me, when you are used to marshalling a pushbike, then a car; progressing onto an aircraft really focusses the mind! That said, the move from JP to Tornado is a pretty big step too…

The fact that you exist as something that is alive is a subject of debate anyway – did life start as a random collection of amino acids which worked better as a collective than individuals, and which subsequently evolved; OR did we start as bacteria from elsewhere in the galaxy.

Either way, its a billion to one chance that life exists. You personally are a collection of elements – your atoms have been in existence for the duration of the universe, so your component parts have been recycled many times before. There is little to no chance that every atom in your body has been solely used in the creation of another living organism, so again, the idea of re-incarnation is fantasy. You have been created in the furnace of a star, probably been part of this planet for a few billion years…. but have you, as in your entire chemical composition, been something living – nah.

Add the fact that the bigger scrap dealers usually put in the highest bids for the airframes via e-disposals, then very few will be preserved. Hawks and Tucanos will be next – ideal private aircraft, but 99% will be scrapped.

That assumes that the ‘soul’ exists. I can see no evidence that proves it does. There is only the physical in existance, you’re talking about something intangible…

The odds are the same as my ability to spell ‘scientific’……

There is a slight error in what I said – the molecules would have to be the SAME ONES for true scientific re-incarnation – in otherwords, every atomic particle in your body reforming EXACTLY as it is now. Simply put, not going to happen with an almost infinite number of re-assembly options. To be honest, your body will revert to the core elements of which it is composed over time, and you will be spread across the planet, the galaxy and ultimately the universe VERY thinly….. You are composed of waste material from the stars, and that is all you will be in the future…. unless you have aspirations at an atomic level of being part of a rock…