Luxury-Spy March 14th 2011 - No Return

Ladies and Gentlemen,

In a few words about the "STRATOFORTRESS PACKAGE" for The Boeing Company...

Aircraft cruising at altitudes of approx. 35,000 feet are orbiting Earth in a very low orbit - you can analyse the energetics of this extraordinary space flight the way you want but it is a fact that aircraft in the stratosphere already orbit our planet... It is very interesting naturally how they can do that at a so low cruising speed?

I think the low cruising speeds (compared to real spacecraft) result from forcing the airplanes to a forward motion instead of an upward motion... That means theoretically that if you shut down 2 or 3 engines of 4 ones the airplane should gain height and speed (we are speaking about astrophysics)... Of course, you could fly with jet engines only as high as the thicker atmosphere reaches - airplanes don't use rocket engines... Despite of all your optimism for development you have got the feeling that an airplane with only 1 or 2 engines on instead of 4 ones could only reach average altitudes at the most - why is that?

Well, if a spacecraft doesn't ascend and it doesn't descend either then there is a balance in the forces affecting on it... In the case of jet airplanes it must be about a balance between the propelling forces and the air resistance - because it is still about atmospheric flights and not about the outer space... If this is true then it made a sense to turn air resistance into propulsion and then you could gain height and speed actually...

Technically you should/could use a "hybrid propulsion" in order to turn air resistance into propulsion... That means you could install electric engines in the first stream of the turbofan jet engines which you could also use as electric generators (I don't think you need any batteries at all)... And then you could use the electricity produced in the 3 shut down jet engines functioning as generators to drive the electric engine in one of the turbofan jet engines...

The above technology would result in higher altitudes and higher speeds without burning any fuel in the jet engines but using only electric power to fly... That means you could cruise around the Earth as long as the water and food reserves of the airplane reach out... Therefore the "STRATOFORTRESS PACKAGE" (based on the "EXTENDED RANGE PACKAGE") is recommended mostly for VIP customers who probably don't want to land for days...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team