Could the flying aircraft carrier possible already in use?
Term "flying aircraft carrier" doesn't necessarily mean the large system, what is looking like the aircraft carrier. The simplest model would be the cargo plane, which can take the drones inside it during the flight, and rearm and refuel them. That kind of thing could be the modified C-130 "Hercules", what has the manipulator arm or what can some other way take drone inside it (1).
As I have written before there is an experience with flying aircraft carriers because in the 1930s some airships have been equipped with hangars, and there were aircraft Curtiss F9C "Sparrowhawk", which were specially developed for that purpose (2). Those planes dropped from the airship, and they were brought up by using the hook. Also, other airships like "Hindenburg" had aircraft for messenger purposes and the mission of that He-54 aircraft, what was dropped from the airship was to send a message to the destiny, that "Hindenburg" was coming.
After the WWII were plans to equip the B-36 "Peacemaker" (3) aircraft by using parasite fighters, what would carry under the wing. Those fighters would be delivered to air when enemy fighters would rise to attack against this plane. Boeing corporation has introduced an idea, that B-747 would be transformed into flying aircraft carrier, what could deliver micro fighters on the air. By using modern technology would be possible to equip cruise missiles with air to air missiles and other subsystems.
There have been introduced ideas that by using the same form, what B-2 Stealth bomber has, it would be possible to create the extreme large aircraft. And the problem is that this aircraft, what might have a wingspan of 100-200 meters would have problems with space, what it needs in runways. Or that hypothetical aircraft would be equipped with the nuclear-powered turbines, which allows them to rise it from the ground vertically, but there might be problems with the risk, what airborne nuclear-powered vehicles could cause.
Nuclear-powered cloud cities and the risks of them. (HAVOC would use solar power) (4)
When we are thinking about the possibility to create the flying aircraft carrier, what is like some kind of version of the fictional vehicle, what is used in sci-fi-movies like "Avengers", we must realize, that this kind of 300 meters long vehicle, what would be heavier than air, needs nuclear reactor for operating. So the technology for that kind of system would already exist, but there are many problems with that thing, and the one is, what if the reactor would have a failure? There has been introduced an idea that this kind of giant vehicle would be manufactured in the atmosphere of the gas planets.
That kind of operation would need robot vehicles, which are controlled by highly sophisticated artificial intelligence. Those hypothetical nuclear-powered platforms can offer the base for searching the atmosphere and "oceans" of the giant gas planets. But the thing is that this kind of system must be manufacture in the space. The problem is, what if the astronaut will drop from the board.
So if we would transform this idea to the atmosphere of Earth, we might think possible, that by using quadcopters, what would act as 3D printers and extreme sharp remote control technology, we could make the large-scale aerial vehicles by using the technology, what allows them to make things straight to air. This kind of system is making possible to make things, which are revolutionize technology. And maybe someday, the "cloud cities" would be true in some form, in the distant future.
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