Tesla Roadster Thrusters Are More Powerful Than Single Engine F16 Without Afterburner
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#793WN)
Four 20 kW fans, built on the heat pump's compressor motor, suck the car onto the road with skirts, so it holds over 2 g in corners even below 50 mph. The wing actuators are borrowed Optimus leg actuators. A 200-liter tank at 10,000 psi feeds cold-gas thrusters with more than 80 kN of thrust, ...