Re:Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights 80% sm...
by swells34 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:12PM
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Doppler radar systems can detect airflow vectors in arbitrarily large areas, so I imagine that we have the tech for that portion, but I too am concerned about trying to take something with that large a mass and surface area and counteract turbulent forces with it. That's also going to stress the airframe and avionics, cause maintenance schedule changes, etc...
Re:Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights 80% sm...
by lagrange77 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:12PM
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Yeah, i was joking. Those thrusters would have to be insanely powerful to accelerate such a big mass fast enough to counteract the rapidly changing forces, caused by turbulence.
This article is about a PoC where they put sensors extended out of the airframe of a small slow moving aircraft and demonstrated a 60% prediction accuracy for a 10% fuel savings. It’s unlikely this approach would scale up to an airliner. The sensor problem might be but I have big questions about the adjustments an airliner moving at 600-900 mph can make to successfully counteract the prediction.