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Can
You Give Some Information About the Ships Used For the Airlift?
Q: Could you
elaborate any on the structure of these crafts you talked about a little bit
earlier? What you have come up with so far, how they might work, what they
might look like, how they might be constructed? Otherwise, they should be ? made across the RK: We expect
that each one would be about the size to accommodate two-hundred and fifty
people. And we would use quite a few of them to take
care of five-hundred thousand. They would probably be constructed like the
body of a conventional aircraft, but they would be wingless and we may use
lighter-than-air technology in addition to whatever motive force that we
would use in order to save some fuel but obviously
we could not rise high enough using lighter-than-air. I guess I am not
willing to—I am being recorded, at the moment, but I
would just as soon not get into the technical details on that. Q: You said, at
one time—fourteen miles— RK: That is
fourteen miles altitude, which is twice as high as conventional aircraft fly
today—something like that. That is a long way up. Volcanoes can spew ash a
good deal higher than fourteen miles. But,
fortunately, high winds, at those altitudes, have very, very little force
because there is not much mass behind them. A three-hundred mile an
hour wind, at those altitudes, does not have much push to it. There are not
many molecules in it. Q: Does that
mean that everything has to be pressurized in order
to operate? RK:
Yes. It is low enough that we
will be able to extract oxygen from the surrounding atmosphere even though it
is under low pressure. And we have to have a means
of diminishing the effects of ozone that will be up in that area. It can be pretty irritating after awhile. One more thing about them
also is that they would act as temporary housing after landing. It is still
good to get shelter and a place that is warm and dry. Q: Would you be
taking food and all the other— RK: There would
be other craft which would have some cattle and special seeds and lot of
information that we have already prepared(?), but
also there would also be underground caverns, as we have visualized it, where
a lot of heavy stuff would be stored and would be located using radio. (04-1983) |
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