Thermonuclear Engines?

[91WhiskeyM6]

Can somebody explain how a Valkyrie can fly by using nuclear powered fuel?

How a common turbofan engine works:

A) Air is sucked in via inlets and compressed.

B) The compressed air is mixed with liquid fuel and injected into a combustion chamber.

C) The burning gases are then sent to the turbine and drive turbine blades.

D) The turbine blades then causes another compressor to compact the hot gases.

E) The flaming gas then gets sent out via exhaust nozzles and propels the aircraft.

There's also the Helicopter/Propellor methods.

Edited December 4, 2003 by 91WhiskeyM6

[DestroidsRage]

What are the exact ways that a Fold Engine works?

How exactly does the Macross Cannon deliver its destructive beam?

What are Destroids muscles made out of? Hydraulics? Pneumatics? Super powered servos?

In any great Science Fiction, there have to be things you cant explain. Otherwise its just not as fun. Thermonuclear engines are only slightly plausible, with the majority of their functionality being filled in by the fact theyre built with Overtechnology.

At least, thats what I think Half probable, and the rest we just dont know about, cause its alien ware.

-BEN-MAN-

[91WhiskeyM6]

[Montarvillois]

Let me pull out my limited engineering skill here:

1-Air is sucked in by primary turbofan blades and compressed

2-compressed air heats up the nuclear fuel by friction

3-heat generated by the reaction gets the air to expand

4-expanded air needs to be expelled and finds it's way out the exhaust nozzles

Geee, why am I even attempting to come up with a solution.

(runs off and hides the blinking 12:00 on his VCR display...)

[Mobyrz]

Discussed Here...

Propellant/Reaction Mass

[dna]

They oughta just pin that thread - it comes up often enough. Or take a whole bunch of those kinds of threads and make a FAQ pinned at the top. Kinda like Newbie Qs, but really a maintained list.

[Nied]

1) Air enters turbine

2) air is compressed over several stages of the trubine blades

3) Compressed air is uper heated as it is mixed with small amounts of Fusion reactor plasma

4) air exits at really high speeds.

[91WhiskeyM6]

Guys(Destroidsrage)...nuclear powered Aircrafts isn't just a fantasy thing.

Proof:

http://www.air-attack.com/page.php?pid=18

and...

NB-36H Crusader

The reactor used in these tests was known as ASTR - the Aircraft Shield Test Reactor. It was cooled by circulation of its water moderator through heat exchangers, and produced a nominal 1 megawatt output. ASTR was installed in the NB-36H aft bomb bay in the approximate location of the full-scale P-1 reactor in order to simulate the radiation field and operational techniques of the larger propulsion reactor.

Edited December 5, 2003 by 91WhiskeyM6

[91WhiskeyM6]

1) Air enters turbine

2) air is compressed over several stages of the trubine blades

3) Compressed air is uper heated as it is mixed with small amounts of Fusion reactor plasma

4) air exits at really high speeds.

There's air in space?

[dna]

But there is reaction mass of some kind in the Valk fuel tanks.

[pfunk]

Folks, your forgeting the byproduct of fusion,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Oxygen/water, thiers your other propelant material for the heat from the THERMOreaction to accelerate

[JELEINEN]

Folks, your forgeting the byproduct of fusion,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Oxygen/water, thiers your other propelant material for the heat from the THERMOreaction to accelerate

Aren't those products of burning hydrogen? Fusing it produces helium.