spaceship one

Charlie

I hear they put their pants on one leg at a time.

Big John
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On 23 Jun 2004 04:30:55 GMT, (Regnirps) wrote:

Only in America wrote:

Yuppers..... You can just imagine all those NASA and public trough
government people watching the spaceship being towed back to the hanger
by a pickup truck with a couple of average joes sitting on the
tailgate.

I don't know as I'd call Paul Allen and Rutan average joes.

-- Charlie Sprinegr

From article , by (Harry K):

For two, their method of re-entry will never work if
returning from orbit. An admirable achievement nonetheless.

Why?

From article , by (pacplyer):

For example: the attitude control system when
the vehicle is out of the atmosphere is just compressed air! What
would happen if a little moisture froze up the attitude air valves?

That is the genious of the design. With the wings cocked, the reentry is
stable without attitude control jets at all. I suppose that if the wings
didn't cock, then the jets would have enough authority to control the
reentry. *Both* would have to fail to lose the vehicle.

In .net UltraJohn
wrote:
I wanted n80km (I run 50 mile trail races, 50m =100km) but it was
taken by of all things a Beechcraft Starship!

In that case check the database, it may be available now...

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(B2431) wrote:

OK, how long before kits are available?

I think I'll have to start with the pre-drilled autoclave kit as soon as I get
the house wired for a couple hundred amps of 440V power. Hmmm. Am I gonna need
some big vacuum pumps?

-- Charlie Springer

Big John wrote:

Charlie

I hear they put their pants on one leg at a time.

I'm not sure Paul can do that anymore.

-- Charlie Springer

"Pianome" wrote in message news:Ng1Cc.89931$HG.26418@attbi_s53...
ANN Publisher Jim Campbell, flying just feet away from Scaled's
SpaceShipOne in a Beechcraft Starship chase plane, was the first to report
some indications of possible thermal or load damage on the aft portion of
the spacecraft, just in front of the rocket bell. --

Wow!!! Flying just "feet" away!!! Did Zoom get his space wings also???

Zoom probably went to some FBO in Florida on Monday, and managed to
get a ride in a Starship, making sure he was in the air at the same
time that SpaceShipOne was in the air in Mojave, listening to CNN on
the intercom. Lets see.. approximately 2700 miles between Mojave and
Florida. 2700 times 5280 feet = 14,256,000 feet.

So when you think about it, his statement was not a lie at all.. He
was just "feet" away at the time (14,256,000 of 'em)

(pacplyer) wrote in message . com...
Richard Lamb wrote
NOW (finally) we might get a better story that the
silly superficial questions asked by the news media.

How about this Richard: America has returned to manned space
launches... and it's not NASA!

We rocked around in an RV all night in 40 kt winds the night before
and were worried that the launch was going to be scrubbed. But
luckily high pressure was over the area and wind died down right
before taxi out. My friend Bubba flew Richard Branson in to Mojave in
a high dollar three blade helo and then landed him back on the top of
the theme restaurant at LAX (he just can't seem to make a low profile
entry anywhere!) William Shantner was supposedly there as well as Buzz
Aldrin. Most of the event was covered by a local FM station but they
screwed it up pretty bad so we just listened to the scanner. The wind
was still blowing stiff after t/o on top of our RV so I missed a lot
of the air to air conversation, but if anybody wants, I'll try to
narrate what I saw in detail. The test pilot community let me in on a
little secret: a major control failure occurred during launch and the
gyro Rutan used for attitude control tumbled (lost alignment.) This
caused an unplanned departure from the vertical profile. Mike M. took
over manually and saved the son of a bitch just in time! However,
this S-turn maneuver put them over 20 miles off course on the re-entry
window!
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pacplyer

Amen Pac, did you read the press release from the May 13 flight?They
lost the platform on that flight as well. Maybe the INU just isn't up
to the sort of loads or speed they achieve.

Frank

Steve VanSickle wrote:

From article , by (Harry K):

For two, their method of re-entry will never work if
returning from orbit. An admirable achievement nonetheless.

Why?

Because it was designed to be a sub-orbital ship...

From article , by Richard Lamb :

For two, their method of re-entry will never work if
returning from orbit. An admirable achievement nonetheless.

Why?

Because it was designed to be a sub-orbital ship...

This particular *design* won't work, yes, but why not the "method" (i.e.
moving surfaces to make for a "hands off" reentry)?