Robotic Flight-Line Aircraft Washing Machine Concept

My first business was washing airplanes out at the local airport, I was 12 years old, and I was always trying to find a way to clean the airplanes using less labor, and to do the job faster. Such is probably always on the mind of a young entrepreneurs - improving efficiency, and trying to find a way to make money faster. I don't doubt that kids running lemonade stands don't go through this same thought process. I sure know that businessmen do, and that is quite evident with all of the Six Sigma business consultants out there.

Okay so, is there a way to create a robotic flight line aircraft washing machine? I believe there is, and I don't think it is as difficult as one might have been led to believe. In looking at the military's UAV drone program, where we have UAV bases in faraway countries, it makes sense to have fewer flight line personnel, not only for their own safety, but also to conserve cost in our military.

If the unmanned aerial vehicles are completely robotic, and are flown tele-robotically from thousands of miles away through satellite links, why can't robotic service machines do all the work for ground support? The answer to this question is; of course they can, however no one has taken it upon themselves to solve this problem, save the military money, or invent robotic systems which can re-fuel the aircraft, do minor preventative maintenance, and wash the aircraft's surface.

Nevertheless, the topic has come up at our think tank, and having been in the aircraft washing business all my life, I think it is possible to create the ground support robots, and also robots which can wash the entire airplane flawlessly while doing pre-fight safety checks, and preparing the aircraft for its next sortie or mission.

Having been in the car wash business, and around industrial robotics for a good portion of my life, it seems to me the only difference between a car going through a robotic tunnel carwash, and building an aircraft washing unit to clean an airplane on the flight line is that on one hand the car moves through the robotic tunnel, and when cleaning an airplane in this way, the tunnel goes over the plane so to speak.

Philosophically speaking, what is the difference? Not much, not much at all actually. In fact, I don't think it would be very hard to build, or very costly. Also I don't believe the time from conception and prototype design to use in the battlespace has to be very long either. This is one way our military can save money. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new series of eBooks on Aurcraft Cleaning. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Electromagnetic Drag Chute Concept for Space Travel

One of the most difficult things to do when visiting another planet is to slow down. Of course, if you don't slowdown you are liable to end up somewhere else far from your destination. Perhaps someone needs to invent an electromagnetic drag chute? How would this work you ask? Well, I have been giving some thought to this and it appears to me that if an electromagnetic drag chute tail were to be deployed from a spacecraft as it neared the planet of intended destination it might capture quite a bit of energy from the friction, while simultaneously assisting in decreasing the velocity.

The energy captured could then be reused for some kind of thruster system to slow down the craft even further. In other words, you would be converting the energy of the friction as you near the planet and use forward facing thrusters to slow you down, just as a jet airplane on the runway during landing uses trust-reversers. The drag chute would be an Entergy Tail able to capture massive amounts of energy very quickly. Some of that energy should be stored, so during reentry the spacecraft or vehicle can use its own power to slow lead to send it to the surface of the planet.

This might work very well for sending unmanned cargo vessels to a lunar colony, on Earth's moon. If there was energy left over it could be used later to launch the vehicle back into lunar orbit to later slingshot back to the Earth, where it would do a similar maneuver to descend back to Earth surface. Although I have not worked all the details out on this, it is theoretically possible, and therefore I think I may mention this at our think tank which happens to operate online - in the near future.

How do I know that energy can be gathered this way? Well, there was an experiment done with the space shuttle program over a decade ago, and so much energy was collected in such a short amount of time with a very short Entergy Tail, that it almost overloaded the shuttle and burned up all the electronics - the tail was jettisoned and cut lose to save the shuttle. And the shuttle was just in regular orbit, it wasn't coming in at a high velocity, it was just soaking up the electromagnetic energy as it skimmed across in low-Earth orbit. As far as I'm concerned, this is free energy for the taking, and we should take advantage of it for future space travel. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Space Technologies. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/

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Future Concept - Futuristic Aircraft Landing Gear Reverse Thruster Spinners

Is it possible to harness some of the kinetic energy and friction which is involved with landing a large airliner, and reusing that energy to stop the aircraft quicker? I believe it is, and I believe there are new materials being made now that can easily make that possible. If you have a few moments, I'd like to explain.

You see, when a large airliner lands those giant tires go from 0 to 125 miles per hour in one second, some tires spin as the aircraft flies while on approach already. Nevertheless when the aircraft touches down it puts a lot of wear and tear on the tires, and the aircraft braking system is under tremendous amount of pressure.

If we can reduce the weight of the tires by speeding up the tire prior to landing, and the tires wouldn't need to be so heavy, or heavy duty, have to be made so strong with so much steel belts inside. These tires are extremely expensive, and quite costly to keep replacing all the time. What if there was a propeller system underneath the aircraft which would cause the tires to spin using the relative wind or ram air flow from the forward motion of the aircraft? That makes sense right?

Sure it does, and now I'd like to discuss with you the regenerative component to this propeller, which will be mounted on the landing gear frame. You see, after the tire touches the ground, the shock absorber will push the tire upward, and that can switch the propeller the other direction, as the tire spins around once it has the weight of the plane on the runway. In other words the propeller would then act as a reverse thruster, which will slow the aircraft down quicker, meaning the aircraft doesn't need such giant brakes.

Remember brakes weigh a lot, and on an airliner they are rather large and a very important component to the aircraft. They also require hydraulic fluid, hydraulic pumps, and all sorts of other things. By making those components smaller, as the aircraft will now be slowed down with reverse propeller thrust, that means we can shave even more weight off this aircraft. Now then, these small modifications may not seem like much, but if the propeller blade is the proper type, and creates a fan like condition, it could provide quite a bit of reverse thrust. Plus the propeller will be made very light materials, which are very strong - perhaps a carbon nanotube composite material.

Maybe more research and development along this line of thinking makes sense at this point. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it. If you have any other aerospace design questions, concerns, or other similar topics please shoot me an e-mail.

Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.worldthinktank.net/ - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.

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How to Steer a Hurricane the Easy Way - A New Concept

Hurricane Wilma Video - Miami Beach, Florida

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Okay so, as the coordinator for a think tank which operates online, it makes sense that we would be engaged in problem-solving and one of the most challenging and vexing problems of humankind is that of natural disasters. We have major floods, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, and so many more catastrophic calamities that can kill us at any time.
Now that we're into the 2011 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season the topic of how to stop or steer a hurricane is now a popular question once again. But is it really possible to stop a hurricane? I mean that's a lot of force and power right?

Sure it is, and mankind can only hope to create that kind of power. If we knew how, we probably wouldn't have any problem creating all the electricity we need for our society and civilization, nor would we probably have to worry about fossil fuels I suppose. Well, I guess it goes without saying that being able to stop a hurricane is a lot harder than it looks or maybe we've come to believe that it is harder than it looks, and that's why we can't do it yet.

Nevertheless, I believe there is a way to steer a hurricane, perhaps away from shore, or to a location where it will make landfall in a less-than-populated area thus, saving humans from the horrible storm surges and insanely wicked winds. Recently there was an article in the science news about how aircraft near airports poking holes in the clouds caused more precipitation in the area or region.
Okay so, if that's true we can use this fact to steer a hurricane. Let me explain my concept here, because no one else is talking about this;

We could create unmanned aerial drones with swept wings, flying at a high angle of attack producing lots of wingtip vortices. This turbulence while flying through the clouds surrounding the hurricane will increase precipitation on that side of the hurricane. Yes there would always already be some precipitation, but this will increase it. Now then, we know which way the clouds are moving because they move in a circle around the eye of the hurricane.

We poke holes in the clouds as they move around and into position when we wish the clouds to drop the rain. As they drop the rain that water will block the trade winds which tend to diminish the effect of the hurricane. This will create a wall of precipitation, making the hurricane stronger on that side, and it will be lopsided on the other side and weaker.

Therefore it will steer towards its stronger side and wobble in the process, losing the continuity temporarily of its eye structure causing a transitional phase, which means it is slightly weakened during this time. I also believe we could poke holes using airborne lasers in a circular fashion to cause a similar action.

In fact, it may be possible to steer a hurricane around in a full circle, or in a figure 8 causing it to blow itself apart. You'd still get the rainfall and the energy of the storm, but you would get the high winds or storm surges which were focused, and cause the most damage. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think about.

Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.worldthinktank.net/ - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.

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