On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 9:46:56 AM UTC-7, kirk.stant wrote:
On Sunday, September 2, 2018 at 8:29:48 PM UTC-5, WB wrote:
You bunch of electric sissies! I want a glider with a huge freakin pulse jet strapped to it burning heavy crude or coal tar, throwing fire out the back for half a mile, sounding like Gabriel has jacked his trumpet into an amplifier powered by relativistic jets from a supermassive black hole.

Better still, Project Pluto...

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The Diesel-Electric idea seems great.
It would be nice to run a winch where the noise of a big block V-8 doesn't drown out the singing of the rope.
Hardly science-fiction, as D-E engines brought an end to the steam age of trains in the 1960s.
Wishing the best results to all designing new stuff!
Jim