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Jamie on August 9, 2007 - 5:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Virgin carried out a [trial http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/allaboutus/pressoffice/pressreleases/news/pr041206c.jsp] on this. I haven't seen anything further as to the success or rollout as a result

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Jamie on August 9, 2007 - 5:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Sorry messed up the link: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/allaboutus/pressoffice/pressrelease...

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Nick Rouse on August 9, 2007 - 11:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Could we take the idea a step further and use launch catapults as used by aircraft carriers?

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Euan Mearns on August 9, 2007 - 11:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

A steam catapult launching 747 sized jets over a cliff edge - I'm glad that in 40 years I will likely be too old to fly:-))

I believe the most logical place that talk of hydrogen and flight leads is air ships which overcomes the need for a launch velocity.

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GRLCowan on August 10, 2007 - 1:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

He didn't say steam, he didn't say over a cliff. Maybe his idea wasn't good, but you filled in details that he did not provide as if you had to reach this conclusion. What if you took the opposite approach?

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen-energy fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html :
oxygen expands around boron fire, car goes

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