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Old September 29th 04, 10:28 PM
Peter R.
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john smith ) wrote:

When asked about it, Melville said he thinks he stepped on something.


Call me dense, but what does this mean?

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Old September 30th 04, 04:06 AM
George
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message link.net...
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Did it count? It only carried the pilot.


The X Prize requires space for three people but not that it carry three
people. A pilot and the equivalent ballast of two people is sufficient for
a qualifying flight.


Not only that but it seems to be aerobatic as well. What a glorious sight
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Old September 30th 04, 05:06 AM
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With all the dummies in the world, it should have been very easy to
find two for this flight...

I believe the X Prize allows one human and two appropriately weighted
dummies. I was going to look it up for sure, but the XPrize website seems
to be crumbling under the load today.

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Old September 30th 04, 02:16 PM
Aviv Hod
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George wrote:
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message link.net...

"John Harlow" wrote in message
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Did it count? It only carried the pilot.


The X Prize requires space for three people but not that it carry three
people. A pilot and the equivalent ballast of two people is sufficient for
a qualifying flight.



Not only that but it seems to be aerobatic as well. What a glorious sight


I believe, to be perfectly correct, that it demonstrated that it's not
just aerobatic, but astrobatic once it crossed the 100km mark. :-)

What a glorious sight indeed!

-Aviv
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Old September 30th 04, 07:18 PM
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"Peter R." wrote in message

When asked about it, Melville said he thinks he stepped on something.


Call me dense, but what does this mean?


Rudder pedal, is what he suggested. At that speed it probably wouldn't take
much.
Awesome job getting it back under control. Talk about unusual attitude
recovery!

-c


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Old September 30th 04, 07:19 PM
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"Dean Wilkinson" wrote in message

With all the dummies in the world, it should have been very easy to
find two for this flight...


I qualify! Sign me up!

-c


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Old September 30th 04, 07:26 PM
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gatt wrote:
"Dean Wilkinson" wrote in message

With all the dummies in the world, it should have been very easy to
find two for this flight...


I qualify! Sign me up!


Oh hell yes, I'd love to be spacemeat too.


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Old October 1st 04, 04:42 PM
Gary G
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They had a "bunch of stuff" provided by company employees
that weighed about what a person would - enough to
qualify. Clever . . .

 




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