Peter J. Alling wrote:
The Bell X-1 was based on the shape of a supersonic bullet. It was used because it was simple and the engineers knew
it would travel faster than sound. Sometimes a technology can't be improved upon.
Except on this list where all things can be improved upon for an excellent return on investment ...........
Otis Wright
frank theriault wrote:
Yeah,
I thought the same thing, Dario.
Mind you, the nostalgia thing is rampant in automobile styling and marketing these days, isn't it? The new Mini, the VW Beetle, the Ford Thunderbird, the Chrysler PT Cruiser, etc, etc. Why not spaceships?
I thought its fuselage looked like the Bell X 1 (the one that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in), especially the tapered nose with the needle.
Like you, I was a bit taken aback by the whole thing.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
From: "Dario Bonazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: Space Ship One Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:16:57 +0200
Don't you find the SpaceShipOne to resemble SciFi movies and book
covers of the Fifties or older?
That spindle shape, all those portholes, not to speak of the blue starlets
here and there...
To me, it looks like a naive design, very different from what I expected
from current technology.
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