On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Adrian Tymes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Not a matter of time. A matter of "main exhaust >mechanism - the engine - plugged or otherwise >unusable, so use backup". Then again, if the engines >are out anyway, perhaps you could get some thrust to >counter gravity (albeit at a much lower Isp - which is >okay, since you'd have a much lower burn time) just by >venting high-pressure but unignighted propellant in >the same general direction. Do you really want to dump unburned rocket propellants onto a piece of ground you're about to crash-land on? If you were using LOX, this wouldn't be a bad idea for a VTVL. LOX dump only. -R -- "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
