Uselessy deployed and brakes uselessly locked. Way to avoid blasting off the end of the runway at 200 knots with the chute So how do you stop? I finally went with ARRESTING GEAR. >Reverse thrust? NOPE!!!! With only 1% atmosphere, jet or prop enginesĬan put out basically no thrust. >BRAKES? NOPE!!! You only have one-third gravity, so only 1/3 of your Only "seeing" 10 mph: USELESS for slowing down You will run off the end of the runway going 100 mph with the chute OF EARTH'S, YOUR =>INERTIAPARACHUTE? NOPE!!!! 400 mph is only 40 mph worth of drag due to the Sound easy? IT ISN'T, BECAUSE WHILE YOUR GRAVITY (WEIGHT) IS ONLY ONE-THIRD Result? A take-off in a well-designed airplane can occurr at a "mere"Ĥ00 knots or so, indicating all of 40 knots on the airspeed indicator! Of only about ONE THIRD the GRAVITY, so it is three time easier to get airborne! While there is almost no AIR for you, you do have the (sort of) advantage REAL speed is SIX HUNDRED KNOTS! (about Mach 1) Take it from me, Mach-1 takeoffsĪre quite a thing to behold, when the plane will barely leave the runway at The result? If you take off with 60 knots on the airspeed indicator, your INDICATED airspeed is proportional the the square root of the airĭensity, so the INDICATED airspeed is ONE TENTH the true airspeed. has NASA done a REAL-TIME simulation of Mars flight in a PILOTEDĪircraft? Has ANYONE?) Well, I have for the last 6 hours, AND IT IS FRIGGINįirst of all, the atmosphere is ONE PERCENT as thick on Mars as it is onĮarth. Over Mars terrain, but NONE have been hooked to an actual realistic FLIGHT (Could I be the first human to fly a real-timeįlight simulaton of Mars? I have seen many "movies" of "flying" On Mars as well, and have been experimenting with deign and flight on Marsįor the last 6 hours or so. I do NOT yet have the TOPOGRAPHY for Mars, but I DO have everything else,Īnd I have gotten it all entered into X-Plane and designed two planes to fly As some of you may know, I have been gatheringĭata on Martian atmosphere, gravity, surface "texture", and topography I DID POSSIBLY THE MOST EXCITING THING I HAVE EVER DONE TONIGHT. To the X-Plane community, at 4:35 AM, February 24, 2000: The following is an email sent by Austin Meyer, author of X-Plane, Maps to deliver an engineering-accurate flight simulation.Įnter a new level of flight simulation.
X-Plane needs atmospheric pressure, density, temperature, gravity, and topographic
The laws of physics, which are programmed into X-Plane, are the exactly the NASA has rough topographic maps for the entire planet of Mars, and very detailed NASA has very exact data on the gravity of Mars. NASA has very exact data on the atmospheric pressure, density, The Martian Chronicles (February 2000, experience