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zapkittyMatt M wrote:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/eventType2.do?eventName=imagining_future#
Select panel 6 for a picture.
Nope. Not for an aneutronic Focus Fusion-powered aircraft… especially not with that huge radiation trefoil 🙂
Blended-wing turboelectric and distributed power designs already under study can be readily adapted for use with any sufficiently compact power source.
Even current tube-and-wing designs can be retrofitted if that’s cheaper, but the interior volume provided by blended-wing designs is awfully convenient…
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20100036222_2010039460.pdf