Flying on Mars
Airplanes like ‘airborne titanics’? 10,000ft runways with arresting wires? No, these aren’t the plans for the next US air carrier but the situation that would face those who want to fly on Mars. With an atmosphere less than 1% as thick as Earth’s and one third gravity, airspeed and inertia are real problems. Luckily, the X-Plane website is attempting to find answers…
Filed under: Meta on December 31st, 2001