In a message dated 3/25/99 11:17:01 AM Central Standard Time, neosapient@geocities.com writes:
> The aircraft's engines could (partially) power
This brings to mind a "war story" my brother in law, (some kind of engineer for General Electric) told me one thanksgiving several years ago (maybe ten?).
It seems that GE. builds some odd (prototype) generators which are physically capable of being "de-spun" from their operational rpm (several tens of thousands?) to "dead stop" in milliseconds.
In so doing a tremendous amount of energy is generated in an extremely short period of time. This energy powers a laser. A very powerful laser.
A multi-shot megawatt (or larger) mobile laser?
EvMick
Indio California