The Science of Superheroes by Mark Brake

The Science of Superheroes by Mark Brake

Author:Mark Brake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00


THE AVENGER AUTO-CANNON JETPACK

An auto-cannon might do the trick. General Electric had been making a Gatling-type auto-cannon since 1977. It was known as the GAU-8 Avenger, and was used before “the fall” on the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II jets, as well as the Goalkeeper CIWS ship weapon systems. And what got Prepper really excited was the Avenger’s clout. The Avenger fired as many as sixty one-pound bullets, each and every second. Even more remarkable, this firepower meant that the Avenger packed almost 5 tons of recoil force. This was even more incredible when Prepper discovered that the A-10 jets that used the Avenger had two engines that each produced only 4 tons of thrust. That meant if you mounted two Avengers on one A-10 jet, and blasted both guns forward at the same time as engaging the jet’s throttle, the Avengers would triumph and the A-10 would move backward.

All this was perfect news for Prepper. He momentarily forgot about his Iron Man suit and daydreamed about mounting an Avenger on top of his Land Rover. He worked out that, mounted on his car firing backward and with the Land Rover in neutral, the firepower of the Avenger would mean his old ride would go from rest to breaking the speed limit in less than three seconds. This prospect reminded Prepper of another, apocryphal, Darwin award winner. A former Air Force sergeant had fixed some JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) solid fuel rocket units to his 1967 Chevy Impala and found a long, straight stretch of road in the Arizona desert. When the JATOs fired, the Impala swiftly reached a speed of 300 mph and the car became airborne for over a mile, before impacting a cliff face at a height of 125 feet, leaving a blackened crater three feet deep in the rock. Arizona Highway Patrol said the metal debris at the scene resembled the site of an airplane crash. No sign of the Impala owner could be found.

And yet he had his solution. If he could source an Avenger, make his suit sturdy enough to survive the blast power, and wrap the Avenger in some kind of aerodynamic skin, Prepper could make like Iron Man.



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