Speaking of radical designs (and Plasma shields ;))…
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Russian Scientists a Step Closer to Creating “Flying Saucers”
Russian physicists have come a step closer to the creation of a so-called plasma envelope for supersonic airplanes that will allow increasing their speed many times.
As they reported from the Samara subsidiary of the P.N. Lebedev Russian Academy of Sciences Physics Institute (SF FIAN), the nature, structure and action of “shock waves in a non-equilibrium medium” that occur around a flight vehicle’s wing practically have been clarified. According to one version, thank in particular to the control of such waves they can achieve the same inconceivable maneuverability that the fantasy writers endow to extraterrestrial “flying saucers” from other planets.
“It is very important to examine all details of the shock wave resistance and structural changes,” one of the researchers of the effect, a graduate student of the Samara S.P. Korolev State Aerospace University, Rinat Galimov, says. – It is impossible to transition to the practical usage of the idea of a hypersonic airplane’s “plasma envelope” without it.
“While controlling this flow ((POTOK)) with the aid of a magnetic field, it will be possible to control the airplane itself, but for it one needs to create a plasma flow in the necessary place and with the necessary properties, declared Galimov, who has become one of the main developers of this subject.
The young scientist received a Russian Academy of Sciences medal at the end of April for the work he has done.
“Work on the creation of a plasma envelope has been under way for more than 20 years already. The discovery of Russian scientists with the participation of A.I. Klimov made as early as end of the ’80s is one of the fundamental ((discoveries)) in this area. One may call it the start of a new science – plasma aerodynamics,” the manager of the work, head of the SF FIAN theoretical department and doctor of the physical and mathematical sciences, Nonna Molevich, says.
At the present time the Samara physicists are studying shock wave structure in chemically active compositions. Interesting astrophysical applications also have been found in the work. It turned out that such an approach is applicable also to the research of non-equilibrium interstellar gas; therefore, research in this direction will help illuminate the nature of some astrophysical phenomena, too.
Source: 20.05.10, ITAR-TASS
(in Russian)
http://www.newsru.com/russia/19may2010/plazma.html😉
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