(March 4, 2017 at 11:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: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
Actually, on Venus, at altitudes where atmospheric pressure is similar to sea level on earth, the temperature is also similar to earth. So electric powered drone that works well on earth will also work on Venus.
