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Headline, Victorville CA Daily Press
SCLA a player in electric jet engine
If a phrase can be misinterpreted, as a former prescriptivist I will misinterpret it. My first reaction was that an electric engine had been developed to power a jet
...especially after reading, "As Boeing begins assembling its electrically powered Dreamliner 787..." Of course I shortly dismissed the idea, owing to the prohibitive mass of the required battery
SCLA, incidentally, means Southern California Logistics Airport, not Sex-Crazed Los Angeles
It is of course an advanced engine, but I'm sure it uses conventional fuel. The aircraft was called "electric" thanks to high-tech electrical bells and whistles such as LED cabin lighting
Owing to space limitations a headline can often convey a mistaken impression. But would anyone else have had the same reaction
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Electric Jet Engine! Perhaps they have a windmill on top of the plane which perpetually generates electricity. The faster the plane goes, the faster the windmill spins, the faster the planes goes. what a drag eh?
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yeah, or it could be that the headline guy misinterpreted General Electric jet engine..
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Electric Jet Engine! Perhaps they have a windmill on top of the plane which perpetually generates electricity. The faster the plane goes, the faster the windmill spins, the faster the planes goes. what a drag eh? It would not be a very pratical means of getting from A to B, however. According to my Acme Guide to Autocatalytic Motive Systems, the exponential increase in the speed of windmill powered electric jet engines eventually breaches the speed of light, launching the aircraft into parallel dimensions whence they never return.
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SCLA a player in electric jet engine
Read quickly - SCLA man inside a jet engine, playing
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