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Sky Cruise is one of the wildest aviation innovations ever seen.




Sky Cruise is an enormous, nuclear-powered drone. That concept allows flying luxury hotel service for 5000 passengers. In that concept, there are swimming pools and hotel rooms with restaurants inside that massive hyper jumbo-jet. The Sky Cruise can stay airborne even for years. And that thing is opening interesting scenarios also for things like interplanetary missions. 

The Sky Cruise concept can operate in atmospheres there is no oxygen. The plasma-jet engines make it possible that the giant flying laboratory can send to the Venus or even to the atmospheres of gas giants. This kind of nuclear-powered aircraft can also operate as a flying aircraft carrier. And it can also transport division with all its equipment across the ocean. 

The idea for Sky Cruise could be from the "Avengers" movie. In "Extreme tech" mentioned that DARPA wants to build the similar flying aircraft carrier that is in that movie. (ExtremeTech/DARPA wants to build an Avengers-like flying aircraft carrier, to make drones even more effective)


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The use of nuclear power in aircraft is not a new idea. The USAF made test flights by using NB-36 "Crusader" from 1955-1961. The NB-36H was the nuclear-powered version of the B-36 "Peacemaker". (Wikipedia, Convair NB-36H)

In fictional movie "Avengers", the heroes operate with a massive flying mothership. In some visions of the future. There are massive nuclear-powered quadcopters. Those quadcopters are operating as platforms for many types of missions. The fact is that nothing except the power source limits the size of the quadcopters. 



Boeing company introduced one of the most interesting visions of a flying aircraft carrier. There the giant Boeing-747 jumbo-jet carried small jet fighters. That giant Boeing 747 would launch those miniature fighter jets in the air. The Boeing 747 in question would be equipped with a service glove where those fighter jets would be re-equipped.

Things like F-117 "Nighthawk" attack aircraft, could be launched from C-5 Galaxy cargo planes. The brake chute will pull that aircraft out from the backdoor of the cargo plane. And there is the possibility that this kind of small jet fighter can fly in a cargo plane. 

And nuclear-powered quadcopters can be even larger than an aircraft carrier. But as you know nuclear-powered aircraft are possible to make. When we are thinking about things like flying aircraft carriers there are concepts where drones are dropped from the cargo planes. 

And the same cargo planes can offer to refuel and rearming for those drones. In some visions. There is a manipulator arm at the back of the C-130 cargo plane, and that system will pull the drone into the cargo plane for rearming. 

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/193904-darpa-wants-to-build-an-avengers-like-flying-aircraft-carrier-to-make-drones-even-more-effective


https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/nb-36-crusader-americas-massive-nuclear-powered-bomber/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk


Image 2)http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/193904-darpa-wants-to-build-an-avengers-like-flying-aircraft-carrier-to-make-drones-even-more-effective


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