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The Second Century Papers: Looking Ahead in Aeronautics—8

Power Generation for Aircraft in the Second Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

M. W. Thring
M. W. Thring*
Affiliation:
Queen Mary College, London
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Power generation for civilian aircraft can only be considered in terms of what kind of flying people will want to do in the 2nd century because the weight and cost of the fuel which will be best are dependent on how much people can afford to pay, how large and how fast they want the planes to be and what the world's total aircraft fuel consumption will be in relation to the world's total supplies of various fuels.

The predictable primary power sources of the second century are the fossil chemical fuels, oil and natural gas, the nuclear fuels (fission and fusion) and solar energy.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 693 , September 1968 , pp. 735 - 738
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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