On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Sean R. Lynch wrote:
Seems like this might shift the economics of wings for spacecraft a bit,
especially for any craft that spends a lot of its flight profile in the
atmosphere. I'm referring more to the wave drag elimination...
Unfortunately, at least the first-generation
At 01:23 PM 7/3/2004, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NASA -- perhaps because of homeland security concerns -- has taken all its
technical documentation offline.
I've noted that sort of thing lately. Even had the operator for the
fireworks shows we worked on
--- Henry Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it has a sharp leading edge, and its
undersurface is
parallel to the airstream, you get very nearly no
shock wave generated
below it. (There is one above it -- the thing has
to have some thickness
somewhere, so *both* surfaces can't be parallel
