Wasn’t he the one that questioned the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate?

Anyway, Sheriff Arpaio seems to struggle with the concept of being “liberal”.

How can anyone with “wisdom” equate liberalism of any kind, even the US kind, with being in jail?

Was he joking? Or being ironic?

I suspect not.

From 34 km the fighter can attack enemy at supersonic speed ( mach 3 max ) and reach an airstrip in Finland…without using the engines at all. As long as the mother ship flys above Finland.

Mach 3 without engines? Straight down then. 🙂

AWACs aircraft require lots of power, cooling, carry large radar arrays with the associated drag and now they have to carry aircraft with all the associated systems and have to be pressurized to operate at 111,000ft!

Your solar powered aircraft are interesting and innovative but you are well and truly in the realms of fantasy now.

But it was killed and went for food. So what is the difference between the lions eating beef, raised and slaughtered by man and a giraffe raised and slaughtered by man?

Moggy

Food wasn’t the reason for killing the giraffe though was it. It was killed because the zoo apparently mismanaged their breeding programme. The fact that the carcass was used of food is “bonus” for the zoo and the lions.

I’m sure most can differentiate between the necessary killing of animals for food and the apparent unnecessary killing of animals in zoos.

Oh is that all!

You have some good ideas and please accept the criticism in the spirit that it is intended.
I’m not sure why the mods decided that GD was the place for this rather Commercial Aviation. Perhaps they thought that GD had people in it that knew what they were talking about !

You’re talking about aircraft that would never get a CS-23/25 certification as a passenger aircraft.

I did a bit of a Google and the nearest 36 seat airliner I could find was a SAAB 340. It uses 2 1300kW engines to fly not very fast and not very high but reasonably efficiently. That’s 76kW per passenger.
It needs that sort of power to get airborne in a reasonable distance, climb to a reasonable height and fly 34 people to their destination. Your aircraft has 5% of the power so can you tell me it would be able to accelerate to a reasonable take-off speed in around 5000ft, climb to 25000ft and carry its passengers in air conditioned comfort at 0.5M for a couple of hours.
In addition it has to power the air conditioning, the pressurization, the hydraulics, electrics, anti-icing etc. etc. All from a total of 160kW?

It might not be CS-25 exactly but many of the rules are there to protect the fare-paying public from poor aircraft design so if it wasn’t CS-25 it will be very similar.

Anyway, you haven’t explained how you are going to generate enough power to pressurize a fuselage to 8000ft cabin while outside is it 82000ft! Where does the bleed air come from? How is it heated to reasonable comfort levels? How do you keep the leading the airframe free from ice? What facilities do passengers need when airborne for over 24hours and how are they powered?
Designing an airliner is a lot more than speed and power.
Your solar panels would need to generate at least 20 times the power you are proposing to be even close to how a modern aircraft operates.