Well, the Heiyerdahl's engines are based on the same thruster design.... maybe the Vulkan engines are just (A), more of them, (B) bigger, and (c) passing more gas at slower speed. These boosters have four thrusters each, and there're four boosters, along with large engines mounted to the bottom of the 'tank'. A heavy-lifting variant of the same engine that trades the fuel economy for brute force to get something moving fast. Heiyerdahl burns it's fuel in days, this runs out in under an hour, sort of fuel economy.
Need a very high energy density power source that'll fit inside a booster casing.... cooling is less of an issue since you've plenty of fuel that heat can be dumped into.
Maybe some way of using either massive amounts of remass at low-speed for raw 'punch', or little or none at high-speeds for more 'power'. I think I'm wobbling around a bit with the concept here.
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Need a very high energy density power source that'll fit inside a booster casing.... cooling is less of an issue since you've plenty of fuel that heat can be dumped into.
Maybe some way of using either massive amounts of remass at low-speed for raw 'punch', or little or none at high-speeds for more 'power'. I think I'm wobbling around a bit with the concept here.
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