We must have lighter aircraft for starters, and we need stronger materials for propulsion, namely the lighter engines, which are more durable and more powerful. Is this even possible? YES! For instance, we see Boeing has made a giant leap forward with their 787, and in the future these materials applied to blended wing designs gives them another 30% jump in efficiency. You like so far?

Yes, so do I. Now then, I’d like to take all this and propose another leap forward using a new trick recently learned in the material science, namely 2D configurations of carbon or graphene sheets or coatings. My concept involves stacking graphene sheets parallel with ammonia atoms attached on both ends, with another graphene coating over the top. The stacked graphene sheets would be, oh let’s say a wing-spar for instance, and the end sheet a cover or skin.

Okay so, as the aircraft, UAV, NextGen “NASA STATS program high-tech point-to-point” flying car travels through the airflow, the trade of electrons from the friction would cause the material memory of the wing spar to expand, getting thinner and wider, or perhaps longer in some cases, meaning as it will go faster through the air as it goes to its thinnest potential, without losing strength.

Consider the camber of the wing of a DC-3 for takeoff and an F-104 leading edge for high-speed, thus, no compromise needed for speed versus useful load. The Ammonia atoms allow for the charge to flow to make this happen. And using a latex paint on top of the graphene coating which also has ammonia atoms involved in its molecular make-up we can make this happen. We have the technology to do this NOW!

When the aircraft is landing, a switch would make it possible to use the static electricity to do the opposite, the increase in static electricity over the wing would increase camber in this case. The wing could have several settings or even up to seven as one material memory lab has proved is possible.

This also has military applications of course – sure it does, why else would I care to come up with such a great concept? You could land a UAV on a small carrier like platorm vessel in very little space and under lots of control, and it could carry a lot of weight for takeoff, perhaps even hit V-2 stationary just due to the relative wind from the speed of the ship allowing for short-takeoff-and-landing STOL or near VTOL (vertical take-off and landing). This way our military could launch swarms with 10,000 lb. smart munitions payloads from a smaller floating platform.

This type of technology scheme might also be used in the intakes for hypersonic craft, thus, allowing for various transitions during its flight. Further, it might even be able to absorb laser strikes, gathering the heat of the laser and electron trade spike and use some of it for radical changes in flight, like the speed brake from hell, thus the laser uses the lock, or it could be gathered for propulsion, recharging, from friendly, or from foe, they enemy refuels it by trying to shoot it down, Sci Fi?

Maybe, but it’s doable, we are already using lasers to power up UAVs right? So, it is thinkable, so we thought of it, and hereby propose this doable concept to our next generation of aerospace engineers. Are you Thinking?

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it’s hard to write 20,000 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/

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