Shape

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Blackswift experimental aircrafts are varied, but the basic goal remains to keep the fuselage height-wise as thin as possible. Their design is that of mostly blended wing body or delta wing shaped aircrafts, shaped like arrow heads (patent pending).

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Airframe

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Their airframe is made of Titanium and Aluminium alloy, with Titanium alloy used for all length-wise trusses. Tessellated structures may wrap around some aircraft sections, with frames, longerons, and stringers, as rivet points for the aeroshell.

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Aeroshell

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Their aeroshell is made of carbide (Boron Carbide) covered Titanium panels or Titanium Composite panels (TCP). Some sections of the fuselage may be covered with Carbon fiber or foam, other sections with Polyamide-Imide panels.

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Streamlining

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Designing the front fuselage to look like an arrow head, and tapering the fuselage, increases streamlining. The effect desired is that of a sheet of paper for fuselage, and with the nose of the aircraft as the point of a sword into the wind.

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Foam & Coatings

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Battery casings and carbon-fiber electrical conduits are filled with foam aerogel to prevent fires (electrical) from spreading. Aerogel is used for sound and thermal proofing. An adiabatic cryo-cooling system is used to reduce the aircraft's heat profile.

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Air Intakes

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Air intakes are square or elliptical at the front, and their placement is aft lateral or dorsal. They are shaped to fit the contour of the aircraft. Their dorsal placement results in a smooth underside and lower radar profile for the experimental fighter aircrafts.

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Air Brakes

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Emergency deceleration, which might be needed to reach the nearest airport, uses the same air inlets acting as air brakes (patent pending). Special spoilers may be added, to the fuselage and wings of all designs, to help in active deceleration.

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Power Generators

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Blackswift PPM power generators, along with hyper-capacitive batteries, provide most of the electrical power required by onboard devices and machinery. Emergency power is provided by ramjet power generators embedded in the air inlets.

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Propulsion

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Propulsion is provided by ramjet-spikes or turbofans. Both type of engines are no more than 2 meters in diameter, and rated for at least Mach 1.5 cruising speed. The turbofans may use Ethanol instead of Jet 1-A for fuel, and the ramjet-spikes Ethanol or Methane.

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Ducted Fans

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The 1+ meter diameter ducted fans use contra-rotating blisks, and are able to deliver several metric tons of lifting force each. Ducted fans are electrically powered by gas-turbines. The power is for servo motors coupled to the ducted fan's blisks.

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LM Rotor

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The ducted fan, used in the FOF saucer design, is powered by a linear motor mechanism. Turbine type blades are used for the set of contra rotating blisks floating on Neodymium magnets. The linear motor mechanism is electrically powered by gas-turbines.

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Fuel Tanks

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The Ethanol/Jet-A-1 fuel tanks are, in addition to the standard wing embedded ones, multi-cell and located at the bottom of the fuselage and in the outer sides of the fuselage (also true for flying saucer designs) as multi-cell fuel pods connecting to the wings.

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Weight Stabilization

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Active fuel pumping which was required by the Concorde SST for weight stabilization, is obviated by the our multi-celled fuel tank design (patent pending), where each cell has its own redundant fuel pump, and each fuel pump extracts an equal amount of fuel per second to match the set of engines fuel requirement.

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Heat Pumps

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All versions of the Blackswift SST aircrafts have a heat exchanger system to extract condensation out of their inner structure. They also shuffle heat from the heat-prone sections of the aircrafts to the cooler sections. Chilled Ethanol for fuel is used to facilitate the heat exchange airflow.

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Armament

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Armament bays of the XF fighters includes 3 Amraam pods, 4 Sidewinder pods, two 4-barrel rotary cannons, and a coil gun or a LASER cannon powered by the gas turbine. Counter-measure chaff and flares are housed to the sides of the aircraft's rear. All missiles are re-engineered to have collapsible fins when stored.

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DragonFly

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One version of the Exocet LanceHead may forgo both the horizontal and vertical stabilizers, and instead use a vectoring fuselage, akin to a dragonfly's use of its abdomen as a rudder. The vectoring fuselage is able to bend, generating a certain amount of pitch and yaw, with the possible help of spoilers.

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