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Brian Serridge

SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

Would Sky One be able to fly through volcanic ash without the engines clogging up? How about the interceptors?

All The Best,

BRIAN

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CMarkChester

Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

Because it was supposed to be set in the "Future" (whatever happened to all
these rocket boots we were supposed to be getting. I want my pair of
rocket boots :-)) then SHADO (and most likely the Military as well) would have
known of the affects of this and would have done some fancy technological
jiggery-pokery to the engines in order to make them able to cope with
whatever strange weather or environmental effects that might occur. It's
something like that bit from one of the Treehouse of Horror Simpson Episodes
(Featuring Comic Book Guy as the Collector) where Lucy Lawless is at a Xena
Convention and after listening to the fans picking out all the faults and
continuity errors in the series tells them "Whenever you see something like
that, a wizard was responsible". So in this case if you see anything like this
Technology did it :-)

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James Gibbon

Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

In reply to this post by Brian Serridge

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:34:34 +0000 (GMT)
Brian Serridge <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Would Sky One be able to fly through volcanic ash without
> the engines clogging up? How about the interceptors?
>

Sky One is essentially a jet fighter I think, so no.

As for the Interceptors - they're designed to fly in the
zero atmosphere of the Moon (somehow). Therefore they
don't rely on sucking air in through an intake; they don't
have jet engines. But I'd suppose that they wouldn't work
in an an atmosphere, anyway.

However as I understand it there are two risks to flying
through a cloud of ash - the first is that the engines
sieze up, and the second is that the cockpit screen becomes
badly abraded to the point that it's opaque.

James

Brian Serridge

Fw: [SHADO] Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

In reply to this post by Brian Serridge

A perfect opportunity then for the aliens to invade Europe right now. If they got a few UFOs past the interceptors, once they reached 35,000 feet above Europe Sky One wouldn't risk going through the volcanic ash cloud and therefore couldn't touch them!!

All The Best,

BRIAN

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From: James Gibbon <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Mon, 19 April, 2010 8:51:45
Subject: [SHADO] Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:34:34 +0000 (GMT)
Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote:

> Would Sky One be able to fly through volcanic ash without
> the engines clogging up? How about the interceptors?
>

Sky One is essentially a jet fighter I think, so no.

As for the Interceptors - they're designed to fly in the
zero atmosphere of the Moon (somehow). Therefore they
don't rely on sucking air in through an intake; they don't
have jet engines. But I'd suppose that they wouldn't work
in an an atmosphere, anyway.

However as I understand it there are two risks to flying
through a cloud of ash - the first is that the engines
sieze up, and the second is that the cockpit screen becomes
badly abraded to the point that it's opaque.

James

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Durham N Tx

Re: Fw: [SHADO] Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH

That would be an interesting plot point for a future epi...

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Brian Serridge
<[hidden email]>wrote:

>
>
> A perfect opportunity then for the aliens to invade Europe right now. If
> they got a few UFOs past the interceptors, once they reached 35,000 feet
> above Europe Sky One wouldn't risk going through the volcanic ash cloud and
> therefore couldn't touch them!!
>
>
> All The Best,
>
> BRIAN
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: James Gibbon <[hidden email] <jg%40jamesgibbon.com>>
> To: [hidden email] <SHADO%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, 19 April, 2010 8:51:45
> Subject: [SHADO] Re: SKY ONE & VOLCANIC ASH
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:34:34 +0000 (GMT)
> Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote:
>
> > Would Sky One be able to fly through volcanic ash without
> > the engines clogging up? How about the interceptors?
> >
>
> Sky One is essentially a jet fighter I think, so no.
>
> As for the Interceptors - they're designed to fly in the
> zero atmosphere of the Moon (somehow). Therefore they
> don't rely on sucking air in through an intake; they don't
> have jet engines. But I'd suppose that they wouldn't work
> in an an atmosphere, anyway.
>
> However as I understand it there are two risks to flying
> through a cloud of ash - the first is that the engines
> sieze up, and the second is that the cockpit screen becomes
> badly abraded to the point that it's opaque.
>
> James
>
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>
>
>

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