A startup company has pitched the commercial airline you work for with an innovative autonomous flying taxi that uses jet fuel for propulsion. Because of your science background, your boss has asked you to evaluate the proposal.
Identify six key considerations that would inform your boss’s decision to recommend or reject this opportunity. Narrowly focus on fuel chemistry, energy transfer, and physics of propulsion, using key vocabulary and concepts.
Embed at least one graphic or video that helps visualize some aspect of your initial post discussion.
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To embed images from the web directly into the discussion postThis article from Air&Space, “It May Take 20 Years, But Your Air Taxi is On the Way”, (Links to an external site.) is an interview with a professor who obtained a $1.3 million grant from NASA to develop personal air vehicles may provide a helpful starting point.