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Ok a blonde friend and I made this up a long time ago so here it is; airplanes made from rubber don't crash, they bounce. Eventually we combined this idea with giant parachutes for an uncrashable plane.
You just know that when Goodyear makes an airplane...
http://davidszondy....ht/rubber_plane.htm
it's gonna be rubber. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 18 2005, last modified Oct 02 2006]
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Rubber tends to break upon impact, but if it doesn't, at least the decelerating people in the plane would, um, be very messily contained in the cabin. |
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sp. bouncy. I like the principle but what do you do about engine heat melting the rubber and rigidity of rubber as compared to aluminium? |
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What happens when the plane is reaching it's max speeds? Surely the rubber couldnt withstand. I also don't think that you could recreate a jet engine with rubber, so they might still catch for or something when you crash, and plus they would weigh the wings down. |
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Interestingly, way back in the '50s the British Navy experimented with rubber coatings on their aircraft carrier decks so that pilots wouldn't have to bother with undercarriage. |
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OOoooo! I want an inflatoplane! |
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You know, I do agree with the parachutes idea... 'Fraid that unless you intend for the airplane to fly at speeds slow enough for people to get fed up, and just drive in a even less crashable car (which only crash while they're working properly), however, the Rubber Airplane part probably wouldn't go over too well... Basically, what everyone's said before me. (Although of course, for the plane to even get up to speed, I assumed that the engines at least, were metal... well, or very, very large elastic band-powered propellers) |
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If all planes were built like this, hijackers could be safely ignored - sure, we'd all get to travel much more slowly - but what's wrong with that? If you can have an instant video conference with someone on another continent, why do you need to be in the same office in 8 hours? |
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If you have to travel (and sometimes you do) why not take a more leisurely route, and actually enjoy it? |
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I'd love to see a video of a rubber airliner boucing off of the World Trade Center. |
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