RE: SpaceX moon trip 2018
March 4, 2017 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2017 at 11:41 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:An Airplane won't do much good, no atmosphere worth mentioning.
It's been calculated that, of all the bodies in the solar system with an appreciable atmosphere, an airplane would work best on Titan (battery powered, you couldn't use regular combustible fuels). Surface pressure 50% more than Earth, with a lower gravity, means that your take-off speed would be about the same as a fast jogging pace.
Second best would be Venus. Of course, your plane would be on fire the whole time, then the plane's systems would fail, then it would stop being a plane.
Boru
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