Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread David Masten
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Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Randall Clague
Alex, that's 11 questions and a request, offset by one substantive comment and one suggestion. Remember upload/download quotas on popular BBS's? You've exceeded your download quota. Please ask one or two questions at a time. All will be made clear to you, Grasshopper, in the fullness of time.

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread ShadowMem
The Spike design is a completely clean sheet of paper. Concepts that worked well on KISS will be used, anything that can be improved will be. No hardware from KISS will be used on Spike. There is only one KISS airframe, which undergoes modifications for 1/2/3/3+ versions. We plan to fly KISS aga

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread John Carmack
At 08:31 PM 12/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: Engine drawings are not and will not be available. Dan Did you wind up going with DynaTurn, or some other place? Did you change to 316 SS, or stick with the more unusual alloy? John Carmack ___ ERPS-list ma

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread ShadowMem
Engine drawings are not and will not be available. Dan In a message dated 12/20/02 5:12:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << If possible I would like to see the drawings for the POGO engine >> ___ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.e

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Alex Fraser
Outsourced engines for POGO and Spike? If possible I would like to see the drawings for the POGO engine, I might be able to give some ideas on producabilty (unless you have already sent them out to the shop). Last drawing I saw of Spike was concept only. IIRC Spike was to initially use the

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread David Weinshenker
Randall Clague wrote: > >- Peroxide supply. Purification processes are looking promising but some > >serious work still needs to be done to meet the peroxide demand of POGO. > > This is also an area where POGO and Spike will compete. Actually, it's a problem that will need to be solved for both.

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Randall Clague
On 20 Dec 2002 10:37:26 -0800, David Masten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I believe we can fly POGO by then. I am not sure we can fly any form of >Conrad square by then. OK. Let's find out. :-) >- Peroxide supply. Purification processes are looking promising but some >serious work still needs to

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Randall Clague
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:19:18 -0800, David Weinshenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Randall Clague wrote: >> The clock is running. We need to get hot on POGO. That >> may mean putting Spike on the back burner next year. > >Hmmm... that's a good question whether it will or not: what >conflicts exi

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Randall Clague
On 20 Dec 2002 14:21:58 -0800, David Masten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is something *very* wrong if we can't work two projects >simultaneously. We have plenty of people to work both projects. I agree. What I want to do is formally establish POGO as our first priority, and make the Centenn

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread David Masten
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:11, Alex Fraser wrote: > I don't think you can do POGO and Spike at the same time with a end > of next year deadline. I think you would be hard pressed to build POGO > in that time, but it is a possibility. There is something *very* wrong if we can't work two projects

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Alex Fraser
Are there any detailed drawings that could be used for the actual building of POGO? I'm talking about drawings you could hand to a machinist and say "build this with these tolerances". Are there drawings for the flight electronics and mounting details, interfaces and so on? I'm not sure of current

[ERPS] Speed of gravity

2002-12-20 Thread GDNordley
Gentlefolk, Ditto to most of what Henry and Ian said, though there is still some legitimate physics being done on non-geometrical interpretations of the general relativity equations in efforts to create a self-consistent mathematical theory embracing both relativity and quantum mechanics. Don'

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread David Masten
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 01:52, Randall Clague wrote: > The 100th anniversary is on 12/17/2003, 362 days away. The clock is > running. We need to get hot on POGO. That may mean putting Spike on > the back burner next year. Dave M, can we get a progress report on > POGO? Can we fly in under a yea

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread David Weinshenker
Randall Clague wrote: > The clock is running. We need to get hot on POGO. That > may mean putting Spike on the back burner next year. Hmmm... that's a good question whether it will or not: what conflicts exist between the two projects that would interfere with their simultaneous progress? -dav

[ERPS] Patent: Programmable-Shape Array (aka "mechanized origami")

2002-12-20 Thread Adrian Tymes
Chris thought it might be useful if I posted this... http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=6487454.WKU.&OS=PN/6487454&RS=PN/6487454 Basically, it's a flat sheet that you can fold into whatever shape. Push

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Wallis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I know POGO is crucial to our further progress, due to its guidance > capabilities, I am not convinced that moving Spike off the front burner is a > good idea for our long term development. POGO-like vehicles have already been > flown, and by more than one group.

Re: [ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread forkbomb
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:52:46 -0800 Randall Clague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The 100th anniversary is on 12/17/2003, 362 > days away. The clock is > running. We need to get hot on POGO. That may > mean putting Spike on > the back burner next year. Dave M, can we get > a progress report on

Re: [ERPS] Rides for Spike meeting

2002-12-20 Thread Alex Fraser
Mail me the pizza. Sean Lynch wrote: > Can whoever picks up Dan pick up Dave as well if he needs it? Also, does > anyone else need a ride or want to carpool? > > No, Alex, we're not picking you up in Virginia :) > > > > S

[ERPS] POGO deadline!

2002-12-20 Thread Randall Clague
Guys, A year or two ago, Ian Kluft suggested that the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk would be a good day to fly a Wright Square, defined as a Conrad Sqaure 112 feet on a side. We all agreed that that was a worthy goal, and agreed to the deadline. We all thought we