Where to land? 😉
On the deck of course. Craft goes 65 kts nearly as fast as the GM-1 on STOL mode 80-85 kts.
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I take it these miniture aircraft are to flown by Munchkins as no normal size human would fit.
The ramp launched 104s and 100s did not use Rato or Jato as they are some times called bottles.
They used a special system that was never put into production.
Rato bottles are now all gone and no more are being produce.
The last were used to demonstrate how they were used for take off assistance on either the Thunderbirds or Blue Angels C-130. The are all gone now.
Many years ago, Walt Arfons tried to use them in cluster to set a land speed record. They did not produce enough thrust to even get the car up to 500 mph so how a Rato bottle would make your aircraft supersonic would me a rewriting of basic physics, which on paper of come into absolute conflict with the forces of the natural world.
I have 185 cm pilot on this design..average finn is 182 cm tall.
Rato bottles are gone…but this has also basic turbofan that pushes this at 0.67 power to weight ratio which is already 20% better than in SR-71.
5 000 kg D-21 moved mach 3.5 with only 6.67 kN ( max weight of GM-1 ) !
Gnat was about same size …( 29 ft long )…also the USAF microfighters by Northrop, Boeing and Lockheed in the 70ies.
You also have to remember that BD-5J is only 12.5 ft long…and carries a man at 500 km/h.
I could make this much smaller, but made it intentionally big to fit in the two AAMs ( MBDA MICA ).
8 big missiles need 9 cubic meters empty space if concealed..that is 3 cubic meters more space than this entire aircraft.
I figure to be absolutely stealth you also need to have size reduced.
Walt Alfons was interesting…any idea how many RATOs did he use ?
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