Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Can we learn anything from this?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

You have GOT to be kidding!?!?!?!  Steam powered aircraft?  Well, that
would be a good way to prevent air hijackings- sentence the hi-jackers
to being the firemen for the boiler.
Carl


Michael B Holt wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that an airplanes have some of the same
> requirements that submarines have.   Of those, relevant
> here is the need for small and efficient powr plants and
> total reliability in all matters.
> 
> Mike H.
> 
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> http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/reports/1926/naca-tn-239/
> 
> Steam power plants in aircraft
> E. E. Wilson
> NACA TN 239
> Jun 1926
> 
> The employment of steam power plants in aircraft has been frequently
> proposed.  Arguments pro and con have appeared in many journals. It is
> the purpose of this paper to make a brief analysis of the proposal from
> the broad general viewpoint of aircraft power plants.   Any such analysis
> may be general or detailed.
> 
> An Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file of the entire report (1372790 bytes):
> http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/reports/1926/naca-tn-239/naca-tn-239.pdf
> 
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