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How economic would real-life gunships be to fly and hover?

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FRrankaccountio
2 years ago
They stay in the air by what appears to be jet-fuel making a constant explosion underneath them. Robotnik's flying machine does this in the Sonic video games too. Like a rocket.

Would this be possible in real life and how terrible would this be at using fuel up?
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DErankAdminmojjj
2 years ago
using chemical combustion engine to hover? sounds expensive, but not unfeasible for a certain small amount of time.
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DErankkatastrophe
2 years ago
(edited 2 years ago)
Do you think at least 4 combustion engines are more economic in terms of fuel-consumption than this?



If they do not burn less fuel, they are not economic at all.
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PLrankrookstoo
2 years ago
(edited 2 years ago)
FRrankaccountio you basically described a jet powered helicopter, or harrier jump jet. its doable. the question is do you want to do it knowing that militaries will start circeljerking orver it so they can kill more people with it...

I think we can achieve real economic turnouts of 1 arabian wedding tent / 10 metric tons of fuel, kinda like ah64 apache... on related note, this:

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EErankAdminAnarchid
2 years ago
A slightly more advanced ionic thruster could maybe one day replace the propellers on a quadcopter.
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PLrankrookstoo
2 years ago
in previous life i developed a thermoacustic jet engine. it works. its mothballed so none of you idiots will use it against each other...
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