Monday, December 5, 2011

Design Proposal Blog Post

The vehicle is built to be able to travel both in land and in the air. We made it a scooter because that way more people will be able to use it as building it requires less money than a car or an airplane. The wings are taken from airplanes and the idea of rockets in the back  The thrust is from a controlled rocket engine. We did rockets because rockets have a large amount of thrust because of the hot gases pushing out and Newton's third law says that the opposite force will be big if the original thrust is big. But our rocket engine is controlled so that steering wouldn't be too difficult. My flight vehicle will have a large amount of lift because the area of the wings are large. This is true because of Newton's 3rd Law of motion. There is more area pushing down, so there is more pushing up as well. We have made the scooter as flat as we could so that we would minimize drag and the wings wide so that lift will be increased and the effects of the weight/gravity would be decreased.