• determinism2 [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    This is easier than landing on a strip. Reaching a specific point in space is a much looser constraint than reaching that same point with the correct velocity and acceleration to make a landing feasible beyond that point. There are way more unique trajectories (flying straight down into the point, approaching off-normal from the building face, sideways, upside down, relatively level, even skipping off the ground) that satisfy the first constraint that would not satisfy the second constraint.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      10 months ago

      At an estimated 850 km/h there is very little margin for error with regards to these unique trajectories however.

      • trot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Ground effect would help: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)