A setting question

Titan: Surface gravity 1/7th of Earth's and with an atmospheric
pressure 50% higher than Earth. Obviously we're talking about a planet
made for flight.

How odd to a reader would it seem to have a very similar range
of aircraft on Titan +100 years as we see on Earth now? Obviously
a lot of the details (like the amount of lifting surface needed and
how the craft is powered [1]) would differ but the basic forms might
be very familar looking.

For some reason, I had a mental image of a helicopter with
tiny little rotors cruising through a storm above a Titanian landscape.


1: Oxygen could be liquified on Titan, given a little pressure. The
atmosphere has about 1.6% methane and various complex hydrocarbons:
can we draw fuel in from the atmosphere and burn it with on-board O2?
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Relevant Pages

  • NASA Study Shows Titan and Early Earth Atmospheres Are Similar
    ... NASA STUDY SHOWS TITAN AND EARLY EARTH ATMOSPHERES ARE SIMILAR ... Organic haze in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, is similar to ...
    (sci.space.news)
  • Re: Not a link but a publication reference
    ... > and atmospheric pressure of around one million bars. ... > bars between the mantle gases and the new thinner atmosphere. ... For the Earth to be "Expanding" as claimed by those who expound a "Earth ... observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. ...
    (sci.geo.geology)
  • Re: Space Elevator/Pipeline for Titan
    ... Titans atmosphere combined with Earth's atmosphere as an energy source ... Titan is synchronized with Saturn, the same way the moon is ... material continually toward Earth. ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: A setting question
    ... of aircraft on Titan +100 years as we see on Earth now? ... Oxygen could be liquified on Titan, given a little pressure. ... I wouldn't believe actual models and types of aircraft being used on ...
    (rec.arts.sf.composition)
  • Re: OTM: What now-undersupplied subgenre would you snap up?
    ... Earth. ... Titan, maybe and definitely ... Thick atmosphere = radiation shielding. ... Said air is as cold as liquid O2. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
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