F-302
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:17 pm
In the middle of a re-watch of Stargate SG-1 and eventually Atlantis.
One thing that caught my attention that I have missed before is the F-302 and its giant wings. Specifically how close they are to the ground. In one shot, the wings are about a foot or so away from scraping the ground. I can tell you planes do in fact bounce around a little even when they are moving around on the ground. Runways and flight lines are not perfectly flat.
A 302 would easily damage one of its wings. It also brings up another thing, landing. Upon landing the landing gear absorbs the impact with hydraulic struts that will push up into itself before coming back down. In other words, the 302 way it is designed would smash its wings into the runway upon landing.
Obviously it was designed by someone with no experience in aircraft design, or anything connected with aircraft. They designed it to look somewhat like a Death Glider. Fairly certain other science fiction series would have put more thought into it.
Those wings are just massive and I could buy into them being that big as way for them to carry fuel or whatever, if they paid attention to the small details.
The other thing the wings are massive which take up space and in fact is one of the driving forces in making the Prometheus and Daedalus much larger than some background information. But even then, the Air Force could have learned a old lesson from the Navy in designing 302 wings that can fold up. But then again, it should have been the Navy manning those ships anyway.
One thing that caught my attention that I have missed before is the F-302 and its giant wings. Specifically how close they are to the ground. In one shot, the wings are about a foot or so away from scraping the ground. I can tell you planes do in fact bounce around a little even when they are moving around on the ground. Runways and flight lines are not perfectly flat.
A 302 would easily damage one of its wings. It also brings up another thing, landing. Upon landing the landing gear absorbs the impact with hydraulic struts that will push up into itself before coming back down. In other words, the 302 way it is designed would smash its wings into the runway upon landing.
Obviously it was designed by someone with no experience in aircraft design, or anything connected with aircraft. They designed it to look somewhat like a Death Glider. Fairly certain other science fiction series would have put more thought into it.
Those wings are just massive and I could buy into them being that big as way for them to carry fuel or whatever, if they paid attention to the small details.
The other thing the wings are massive which take up space and in fact is one of the driving forces in making the Prometheus and Daedalus much larger than some background information. But even then, the Air Force could have learned a old lesson from the Navy in designing 302 wings that can fold up. But then again, it should have been the Navy manning those ships anyway.