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Quest for a novel force: a possible revolution in aerospace

机译：寻求新型力量：可能的航空航天革命

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Conventional understanding of flight in aerospace depends primarily on the application of Newton's laws in the design of components providing propulsive and lifting forces. This reality has given incredible advances in capability during nearly a century of endeavour. But this century of achievement was preceded by millennia of speculation, literary fantasies, some tentative scientific proposals and brave practical attempts of how manned flight might be attained. However, the coming of reality did not stop the aerial speculation which has continued over the last century with various doubtful claims that have disguised an underlying seriousness seeking for alternative means of accomplishing aeronautical ambitions. Recently, three professional programmes have emerged, directed to discovering such new ways of propulsion, viz., the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics programme, the BAE SYSTEMS Project Greenglow and work at ESA. The author has followed these novel developments for over half a century and is now a consultant to the BAE SYSTEMS programme. BAE SYSTEMS monitors many evolving scientific and technical advances to seek competitive advantages for its products and pays appropriate attention to the most promising solutions. Some of these are correctly described as breakthroughs and in the speculative field of advanced propulsion it seeks advice on the truth or falsehood of the many quantitative claims that have been published. The primary task is to design radically new aeronautical systems based on new physical principles. This paper sets out this strategy which has the following logic: 1. to account for previous claims, patents and investigations and assess their validity, 2. make scientific experiments of new phenomena and generate theories, 3. propose radically new ways (engines) of providing aeronautical forces, 4. assess whether any of these imaginary engines could improve aerospace performance, 5. if so, how significant would the improvement be? 6. it appears that one solution offers superb improvement, globally, for over a century ahead, 7. hence, it is well worth the effort to realise this in practice, 8. one of the proposed engines is in sequence with previous transport systems, 9. the best way forward is serendipitous collaboration with advanced thinkers in physics, and 10. Project Greenglow links new physics with novel engines and global transport performance by means of evolving techniques used in novel ways. This process, described in this paper, is essentially 'project-led research' (sometimes called 'focussed search'), in which theoretical possibilities are subjected to the classical process of conjecture and refutation, also employed in a previous paper published in this journal, viz., 'Global issues affecting aeronautics' (Prog. Aerosp. Sci. 1999; 35: 413). There is an important distinction between the UK programme and others, i.e., the inclusion of aeronautics as well as spaceflight, whereas the others deal exclusively with spaceflight.
机译：对航空航天飞行的传统理解主要取决于牛顿定律在提供推进力和提升力的组件设计中的应用。在近一个世纪的努力中，这一现实已经在能力上取得了令人难以置信的进步。但是，在本世纪的成就之前，已有数千年的推测，文学幻想，一些初步的科学提议以及关于如何实现载人飞行的英勇实践尝试。然而，现实的到来并没有阻止空中投机活动的发生，在上个世纪一直在进行各种猜测，这些投机活动掩盖了寻求实现航空野心的替代手段的潜在严重性。最近，出现了三个专业计划，旨在发现这种新的推进方式，即NASA突破性推进物理计划，BAE SYSTEMS Greenglow项目以及在ESA的工作。作者关注这些新颖的发展已有半个多世纪，现在是BAE SYSTEMS计划的顾问。 BAE SYSTEMS监视许多不断发展的科学技术进步，以寻求其产品的竞争优势，并适当关注最有希望的解决方案。其中一些被正确地描述为突破，并且在高级推进的投机领域中，它就已发表的许多定量要求的真实性或虚假性寻求建议。主要任务是根据新的物理原理设计出全新的航空系统。本文提出了具有以下逻辑的这一策略：1.解释先前的权利要求，专利和调查并评估其有效性； 2.对新现象进行科学实验并产生理论； 3.提出根本性的新方法（引擎）提供航空力量； 4.评估这些假想引擎中的任何一种是否可以改善航空航天性能； 5.如果可以，改善的意义如何？ 6.一种解决方案似乎可以在一个多世纪后的全球范围内提供出色的改进，因此7.在实践中实现这一目标是值得的。8.提出的一种发动机与先前的运输系统相继使用， 9.最好的前进方式是与物理学高级思想家进行偶然的合作，并且10. Greenglow项目通过以新颖方式使用的不断发展的技术，将新物理学与新颖的引擎和全球运输性能联系起来。本文所描述的这一过程本质上是“项目主导的研究”（有时称为“聚焦搜索”），其中理论可能性受到经典的猜想和反驳过程的影响，该过程也在本刊发表的先前论文中得到了应用。 ，即“影响航空的全球性问题”（Prog。Aerosp。Sci。1999; 35：413）。英国计划与其他计划之间有一个重要的区别，即将航空和航天纳入其中，而其他计划仅涉及航天。

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    《Progress in Aerospace Sciences》 |2003年第1期|p.1-60|共60页
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    John E. Allen;

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    School of Engineering, Kingston University, Roehampton Vale, London SW15 3DW, UK;

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