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bdamm wrote: post #345
rbanffy wrote: post #80

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> Designs that distribute props across the leading endge, or right on the leading edge of the rudder, are exciting From a purely aesthetic point of view, pusher props are way cooler. If the wings are far back and the plane has canards, even cooler.

Tractor props have the benefit of creating an airstream over the wings which lets you generate lift at lower speeds - this is why leading-edge props are so interesting. Pushers can’t use that bonus feature of the airstream.

I know, but pushers look so much cooler…

Think of the Piagio Avanti, the various Rutan designs, or the Velocity planes. IIRC, they also allow quieter cabins.

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ragebol wrote: post #380
ddlsmurf wrote: post #271

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if VCs didn't care about making their money back, but instead had very different interests, then somewhat

You don't think China (as a whole and as the government) is making it's money back? If not now, then in a few years

They're really not, the tiniest bits have shown with evergreen for ex, all the ghost cities. We don't really see the people who's savings, which with kids is the only "pension", have been demolished, on an individual level Chinese tend to save way more than others, this is gone. There's the demographic issue on top, the famines, that they import 70% of their food, depend on trade which the americans are withdrawing for protecting the routes of, and other unadressed issues because the priority is this investment, the missing population, the utter lack of statistics, even internally. Most likely the biggest factor will be wether they try something in Taiwan next year as they warned.

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pkulak wrote: post #96
7952 wrote: post #42

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Those facilities can be much more modest and can scale up and down depending on location. Particularly for smaller short haul aircraft.

Maybe. But they can almost never be in places where people actually need to be; like central cities.

But possibly closer to where a lot of people live (towns and suburbs) and able to be more flexible to where they might want to go. Such as having direct flights to a coastal holiday destination rather than needing to connect through a city centre.
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