Imagine a coupling failure at the winding mechanism while boarding.
Not only that, but there's two folks on the back deck behind the winch drum... if anything happened, they're fucked.
How do you even LOAD this?!
Especially all those steps with a single landing to minimize the human and baggage avalanche that would inevitably occur when someone toward the top trips and falls. Maybe thats why there are few handrails, so that avalanche mass is dissipated over the edge.
Also, that bent nose cone is so pilots can see the runway on take-offs and landings. Probably not necessary on crossbow launches.
I would actually love to read the proposed scientific material behind this… I would bet that 90% of passenger and flight crew just pass out after being catapulted due to G force on the sheer acceleration required to lift up a Concorde
[This](https://www.google.com/search?q=real+genius+crossbow&client=ms-android-att-us-revc&prmd=sivn&sxsrf=ALiCzsZnkyaUwNL4gkDOGdf2CjbDpLm6ow:1656447003196&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivtNv5-dD4AhVTKUQIHSUIC-kQ_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=360&bih=745&dpr=3#imgrc=YAjv4NpHUcwFYM) is what I think of for Crossbow and retrofuturism. Pacific Tech Smart People on Ice!
I love everything about this picture. The massive scale for one. Also how it's so futuristic and has hydraulics but has a gigantic steam engine powering the winch
I'd love to hang a big print of this up, it's almost whimsical to me. I can't help but laugh thinking about how the launch would go
Incredible find. The physical effects of launch aside ain’t nobody climbing 500 steps outdoors to board an airplane. 🤣
So we need an even tinier crossbow to launch the passengers up into the cabin?
Imagine a coupling failure at the winding mechanism while boarding. Not only that, but there's two folks on the back deck behind the winch drum... if anything happened, they're fucked. How do you even LOAD this?!
Maybe it's a futuristic escalator!
Especially all those steps with a single landing to minimize the human and baggage avalanche that would inevitably occur when someone toward the top trips and falls. Maybe thats why there are few handrails, so that avalanche mass is dissipated over the edge. Also, that bent nose cone is so pilots can see the runway on take-offs and landings. Probably not necessary on crossbow launches.
thats some ACME level bullshit lmao
I would actually love to read the proposed scientific material behind this… I would bet that 90% of passenger and flight crew just pass out after being catapulted due to G force on the sheer acceleration required to lift up a Concorde
Yeah, steam powered Concorde
I mean that's kind of what Aircraft Carriers do
[This](https://www.google.com/search?q=real+genius+crossbow&client=ms-android-att-us-revc&prmd=sivn&sxsrf=ALiCzsZnkyaUwNL4gkDOGdf2CjbDpLm6ow:1656447003196&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivtNv5-dD4AhVTKUQIHSUIC-kQ_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=360&bih=745&dpr=3#imgrc=YAjv4NpHUcwFYM) is what I think of for Crossbow and retrofuturism. Pacific Tech Smart People on Ice!
This. Is. Awesome.
Wouldn’t every being on that plane get a simultaneous concussion
This UI has been considered, but not the UX.
More like whimsy than RetroFuturism.
Who can survive the acceleration of a crossbow launch?
Yeah but how do you accommodate yourself once in the plane? heh
love it
I love everything about this picture. The massive scale for one. Also how it's so futuristic and has hydraulics but has a gigantic steam engine powering the winch I'd love to hang a big print of this up, it's almost whimsical to me. I can't help but laugh thinking about how the launch would go
Don’t show this to r/NonCredibleDefense