spaceship one

In article , pacplyer says...

Yes, I believe you are correct Rich. Was listening to the 104.9 disk
jockey that was claiming this was the ten million dollar x-prize
attempt. But I believe you are correct on the plan. But if I was
Burt: I would have stuck in a couple of sand-filled mannequins and
claimed this was attempt #1 since it is so dangerous.

pac

If he did that he probably would not have made the altitude required. They
barely made it as it was due to a minor mechanical glitch.This flight proved the
systems and what adjustments must be made. JMHO

See ya

Chuck

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:14:25 -0700, ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

In article , pacplyer says...

Yes, I believe you are correct Rich. Was listening to the 104.9 disk
jockey that was claiming this was the ten million dollar x-prize
attempt. But I believe you are correct on the plan. But if I was
Burt: I would have stuck in a couple of sand-filled mannequins and
claimed this was attempt #1 since it is so dangerous.

pac

If he did that he probably would not have made the altitude required. They
barely made it as it was due to a minor mechanical glitch.This flight proved the
systems and what adjustments must be made. JMHO

Has anybody made a guess as to how high spaceship 1 will be able to go
when it has passengers + a full rocket engine?

AC

anonymous coward wrote in message e...
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:14:25 -0700, ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

In article , pacplyer says...

Yes, I believe you are correct Rich. Was listening to the 104.9 disk
jockey that was claiming this was the ten million dollar x-prize
attempt. But I believe you are correct on the plan. But if I was
Burt: I would have stuck in a couple of sand-filled mannequins and
claimed this was attempt #1 since it is so dangerous.

pac

If he did that he probably would not have made the altitude required. They
barely made it as it was due to a minor mechanical glitch.This flight proved the
systems and what adjustments must be made. JMHO

Has anybody made a guess as to how high spaceship 1 will be able to go
when it has passengers + a full rocket engine?

AC


I would think it is a matter of simply increasing the fuel load. The
burn was billed for 90 seconds, but they only got seventy some seconds
before burnout. Greater Burn time = higher Altitude. The designed
gross weight should be able to attain 62.5 miles. But ask Dr.
"A"-o.k. Evil ). He claims to have secret hardware on the
moon and mars! ;^D ROTFOL!

pacplyer

anonymous coward wrote in message e...
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 04:14:25 -0700, ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:

In article , pacplyer says...

Yes, I believe you are correct Rich. Was listening to the 104.9 disk
jockey that was claiming this was the ten million dollar x-prize
attempt. But I believe you are correct on the plan. But if I was
Burt: I would have stuck in a couple of sand-filled mannequins and
claimed this was attempt #1 since it is so dangerous.

pac

If he did that he probably would not have made the altitude required. They
barely made it as it was due to a minor mechanical glitch.This flight proved the
systems and what adjustments must be made. JMHO

Has anybody made a guess as to how high spaceship 1 will be able to go
when it has passengers + a full rocket engine?

AC


I would think it is a matter of simply increasing the fuel load. The
burn was billed for 90 seconds, but they only got seventy some seconds
before burnout. Greater Burn time = higher Altitude. The designed
gross weight should be able to attain 62.5 miles. But ask Dr.
"A"-o.k. Evil ). He claims to have secret hardware on the
moon and mars! ;^D ROTFOL!

pacplyer

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote in message ...
In article , pacplyer says...

Yes, I believe you are correct Rich. Was listening to the 104.9 disk
jockey that was claiming this was the ten million dollar x-prize
attempt. But I believe you are correct on the plan. But if I was
Burt: I would have stuck in a couple of sand-filled mannequins and
claimed this was attempt #1 since it is so dangerous.

pac

If he did that he probably would not have made the altitude required. They
barely made it as it was due to a minor mechanical glitch.This flight proved the
systems and what adjustments must be made. JMHO

See ya

Chuck

Yes I think you're right Chuck. You've probably done a little testing
along those lines in new ships, right? You test pilots are brave Mo
Fo's. Us cowardly cargo dogs just want to get the mission done in as
few trips as possible. Same thing with the Casinos. Reduce the
wife's trips to Vegas and you improve the odds of buying yourself a
new Hawk someday.... ;-)

pac

In article , pacplyer says...

Yes I think you're right Chuck. You've probably done a little testing
along those lines in new ships, right? You test pilots are brave Mo
Fo's.

Hi Pac
While it true I've personally tested every Hang glider I ever designed and did
all the test flying for all my reduction drive testing I am not a "real" test
pilot nor do I claim to be. The "real" test pilots are the brave MO FO's not me.
I was just testing my designs. There are some people who like to be called "test
pilot" because they went to a 1 week course but that's not me. "Real" test
pilot's all have a wheel barrow to transport their gonads to the airplane and my
hats off to those guys:-)

Us cowardly cargo dogs just want to get the mission done in as
few trips as possible. Same thing with the Casinos. Reduce the
wife's trips to Vegas and you improve the odds of buying yourself a
new Hawk someday.... ;-)

I went to Vegas once for a UL convention and lost $25.00 to the slot machines
and that cured me from gambling forever LOL!!

See ya
Chuck (test pile it ) S