>>64027854 (OP)A question for /k/.
I was kind of high the other night and thinking about Veritechs, as a man sometimes does.
Thinking about how they'd operate in an urban environment as they did in Robotech ep1-2.
This raised some questions about whether walking around on jet engines would present some material engineering challenges but also on what it would look like to both land and take-off from random urban streets and rooftops, or fields for that matter.
There's an obvious parallel between a a gerhard or walker landing/take-off and an F-35B doing much the same thing so that's a good place to focus on.
Can a regular urban street survive an F-35B vertical landing?
If not, a random but unprepared and un-certified highway?
An asphalt schoolyard? Concrete urban ball court?
What about a field?
Or even an airfield taxiway or concreted flat in front of a hanger for that matter?
Or a rooftop helipad?
Or an airfield helipad?
How much preparation and what kind of design features does a surface need to support VTOL landings?