Glenn Millam wrote: OK, let me get this straight. There are a lot of unknowns to me here.
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Does anyone have these answers? I know that the current plan for FF is to be housed in garage-sized power plants. Thats very small for a power plant but kind of big on a jetliner. But where there is a will there is a way….
Some of these answers are readily available. Some can be calculated.
Let’s use the Boeing 747-400 series as a baseline. it has a cruising speed of Mach 0.85; and 282 kN thrust per engine, x4 engines…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-400#Specifications
by the way, i think the onion is aluminum foil, not lead, and it captures 100% of the xrays. the neutron shielding is 1m thick water and a boron jacket; the gamma ray shielding is lead.
