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Kimmo Huosionmaa
Lockheed-Martin corporation is trying to make fighter or airplane, what would use Fusion reactor for flying. That seems like something from Science fiction books, but in this case, would this fusion motor become the real thing. The fusion motor doesn't mean that the aircraft needs nuclear reactors or the fusion would be self-sustain.
In those concepts, what is theoretically investigated in tens of years, the fusion will give only the driving force. The motor itself is theoretical very simple, the fusion element would be conducted thru the reactor, and then the lasers would ignite the artificial sun inside or outside the reactor. Those lasers can get their electric power from fuel cells, conventional turbo-generators, what are rotating by jet turbines or by nuclear reactors.
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| "Daedalus" Picture II |
Also, windmill-generators what is used in some Electronic warfare aircraft can be used in that role (Picture IV). That kind of fusion reactor was planned to interstellar spacecraft "Daedalus" what was planned by interplanetary society. In that solution, the fusion reactor would use assisted by another propulsion system, what gives power to those lasers. Of course, those lasers can use acetylene lights in their lightning tubes, and that would decrease the need for electric power.
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Those lasers can be carbon-monoxide lasers, what are most powerful chemical lasers in the world. Their mission is to create enough energy, that fusion would start in the middle of them. That motor would be the very revolutionizing solution in aviation, and that would give change to travel in the universe at least in our own solar system and also in the atmosphere of planets.
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In some wildest dreams, that fusion powered aircraft would look like the normal fighter, and it air intakes would use as the port for the interstellar ramjet. In that fictional motor, the powerful magnetic field would suck the ions thru the fusion motor, and in this process, the magnetic field would pressure that ion flow like wire, what goes thru the reactor, and then the laser rays would ignite the fusion. The problem of that system would be auxiliary power, what is needed to make those laser-rays and magnets what would press that ionic flow.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
https://www.space.com/37146-nuclear-fusion-rockets-interstellar-spaceflight.html
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesignsfusion.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUuMAsaJBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJCneMkxQk
Picture I
http://cdn3.theeventchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/lockheed-martin-patents-nuclear-fusion-powered-fighter-jet.jpg
Picture II
http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/fusion-engine.jpg
Picture III
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/george-h-miley-presentation-on-nuclear.html
Picture IV
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8g2DinNhXCU/maxresdefault.jpg
https://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/
http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/lockheed-martin-and-fusion-powered.html
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