A1 5 Aeolus' Gift

Authors

  • Madeleine Stentiford University of Leicester
  • Andrea Tasyaka
  • Pippa Holmes
  • Kieran Bujdoso

Abstract

During Odysseus’ ten year journey, returning from the Trojan War, he is gifted a magical bag of wind to help him reach his home of Ithaca. Modelling the bag of wind as a propellant for a rocket system, this paper shows that the magical bag of wind would have a sustained thrust of approximately 6.8 N. Furthermore, the mass of this fuel would have been over 111, 000 kg, thus having a similar fuel-to-capsule mass ratio as a Saturn V rocket.

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Published

18-11-2024

How to Cite

Stentiford, M., Tasyaka, A., Holmes, P., & Bujdoso, K. (2024). A1 5 Aeolus’ Gift. Physics Special Topics, 23(1). Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/pst/article/view/4820

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2024): Physics Special Topics

Section

Articles