Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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What we have is two "qualifying" flights in July/August, separated by a
month, two hardware failures and a couple of weather failures. So, by
your own admission, they couldn't do it.


Please explain how not doing it proves they couldn't do it.



But, in the actual records, they *couldn't*. Computer overheat,
vulnerability to weather, bad APU... nope, they couldn't manage
it, even with the less-stringent "rules" in effect.


Nonsense. The X-15 achieved turnaround times of less than two weeks and was
flown over 100 km, that proves they could have flown it twice over 100 km
within two weeks if they had chosen to do so.

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
.com...

Every time I've mentioned it so far, you've gotten a sudden case of
amnesia, with a side-dose of "I didn't say that."

**** off.


If you knew of a single statement of mine that was incorrect you'd have
cited it. Your level of credibility has been established.

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Because without reaching orbit you cant do anything useful.


Have you followed all of this thread? That's my point.



Thats obvious


Is it? Your message suggested you were not aware of that.

"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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So much for sounding rockets. Let's shut down Wallops Island
and White Sands...


I don't think the X Prize was offered in order to find a replacement for
sounding rockets.

Would you mind showing how I attributed that little snippet to Hillary? I made
no attribution at all, and only mentioned Hillary several paragraphs above.

Jim


Mary Shafer
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

- You do it...
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- because...
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- it is there.
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-Wrong guy. George Leigh Mallory said "because it is there", not
-Edmund Hillary.
-
-Mary

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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The first non-stop flight between North America and the U.K. The
NC-4's final destination was Southampton.


The Daily Mail prize did not require a non-stop flight, but it did require
that any intermediate stoppage be made only on water. The NC-4 didn't
qualify for the Daily mail prize because it stopped at Horta and Lisbon. It
wouldn't have qualified even if it hadn't stopped in the Azores, as the
Daily Mail prize required a flight between any point in the US, Canada, or
Newfoundland and any point in Great Britain or Ireland.

In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
.com...

What we have is two "qualifying" flights in July/August, separated by a
month, two hardware failures and a couple of weather failures. So, by
your own admission, they couldn't do it.

Please explain how not doing it proves they couldn't do it.

"two hardware failures and a couple of weather failures."

I would think that you could read at least that much of the paragraph.

You're reading the failures as "given some luck and a few more tries,
they might have been able to do it," while I read it as "they tried to
do it and failed."

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Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
hlink.net...

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
.com...

Every time I've mentioned it so far, you've gotten a sudden case of
amnesia, with a side-dose of "I didn't say that."

**** off.


If you knew of a single statement of mine that was incorrect you'd have
cited it. Your level of credibility has been established.


Hmmm. Mr. McNicoll, in the third message of this thread you said:
"That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100 km."
That was incorrect. But, of course, that error on your part didn't
count -- since it was based on ignorance.

In article ,
(Peter Stickney) wrote:

In article
,
Steve Hix writes:
In article ,
(Peter Stickney) wrote:

I don't see any X-Prize contenders carrying 1,000# of Data Acq along
with them.

How much would equivalent-capability gear weigh these days?

Well, in the case of teh instruments and recorders, quite a bit less,
(How's that for an exact figure!) and with a much lower cooling
burden, as well. The telemetry stuff will also be a bit lighter, but
not as much - transmitters are still pretty hefty.

Of course, if you were building a 21st Century X-15, and you had 1000#
(or even 450 Kg) of avaialable payload, you'd fill it up with even
more stuff. Equipment expands to fill the available volume & weight,
after all.

"You can never have too much memory/drive space/..."

"Casey Wilson" wrote in message ...

Hmmm. Mr. McNicoll, in the third message of this thread you said:
"That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100 km."
That was incorrect. But, of course, that error on your part didn't
count -- since it was based on ignorance.


Please help to releive me of my ignorance and explain how it was incorrect.