AcMo is a
forward moving company by necessity. Untapped
revenue streams, and technological breakthroughs are found through rigorous
discovery. Sometimes these discoveries
are built upon past experiments to create something greater than the original
project masterminds could have ever conceived.
A fortuitous recent perusal of a stack of declassified documents has
inspired AcMo to pursue a new old opportunity. In the off chance those documents are still
classified, and the postal service sent them to us by mistake, I’m keeping the
source material private until I can verify their status.
The
original Avrocar project ended in extreme failure, but AcMo will prevail where
those before us could not. We are going
to develop flying saucers capable of reaching and returning from space for the
masses.
Despite how it looks, the pilot's feet are NOT on the ground. |
The plan is
quite simple. We are going to take the
best elements from the failed Avrocar test saucer and combine them with the
design of the Dream Chaser* space vehicle with a small twist.
This thing better do what it is supposed to do or AcMo will be in trouble. |
Once we
have figured out how to shape the craft to be a mix of Dream Chaser and
Avrocar, we will add the AcMo touch to make it perfect. I don’t yet know exactly how this will work
because we just started running the simulations this morning, but I am
confident the team will have a solution soon.
The missing
feature that the Avrocar car team couldn’t have known about at the time, but
would have made actual flight possible is a folding wing design similar to the
F-14 Tomcat. I believe that a 2-axis
folding wing system installed on a saucer shaped airframe will provide low
speed lift and maneuverability while the streamlined harmonious saucer shape with
wings folded will provide low drag, high altitude, high speed operation with
less pilot input and control. We are
essentially making a giant scale replica of Fred with jet engines instead of
twin turbochargers. We may add
turbochargers at some point during development to keep the theme
consistent. The entire plan is fluid at
this point and could change at any moment.
Folding wings are still cool. |
It may seem
like this project has an improbable chance of success, but I feel confident
about this one. I already know the F-14
can fly, I’m reasonably certain the Dream Chaser will fly, so I don’t see why
combining two mostly known quantities to the Avrocar concept wouldn’t work,
especially since we are basically stealing the idea from nature. It is not like the Egyptians could have known
before building the great pyramids that the process would work.
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IF AcMo can
do what it does best and succeed against all odds, the era of flying vehicles for
the masses will begin. We will be
responsible for the ultimate disruption of the aviation industry as a result of
our pioneering work. Anyone betting
against us will be left on the ground yearning for his or her own personal flying
apparatus. We’re going to need a good
name for this new vehicle, one that sparks the imagination and strikes fear
into our enemies. The AcMo Flying Space
Saucer will be known as the AFSS Pterodactyl™.
Of course all of our past and ongoing development work with Fred will
play a role in the success of this project.
With Fred, we have a bird that can illuminate the path forward and
upward. None of those other projects can
claim that. The future of AcMo’s space
travel division looks bright.
*We
are taking a huge leap of faith by starting our development work before the
Dream Chaser has proven itself to be a viable flying craft. I don’t believe this project will work
combining two failed craft with one successful one. There aren’t enough positives in an equation
like that.
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