Re: [ERPS] EZ rocket's competition

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Massee
At 10:06 PM 6/3/2002 -0400, Alex Fraser wrote: Well not quite competition, but amusing. Somewhere in Iowa.  http://members.aol.com/weedplane/rockets/ OMG.   I think my favorite line is: "The brown thing under the wing is our dog." Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/P

Re: [ERPS] The wonders of Ebay

2002-07-13 Thread Mike Massee
ther on Ebay or another auction service.  Perhaps the current owner couldn't figure out anything useful to do with it. It'd make a great crash-landed movie model! ---Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] WorldCon and ERPS

2002-08-25 Thread Mike Massee
o of booth work with some other friends who will be there promoting their own con.  I know it's a WorldCon, but the rates are just astronomical. ($200! holy cow batman!) --M Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] WorldCon and ERPS

2002-08-26 Thread Mike Massee
At 11:26 PM 8/25/2002 -0400, Henry Spencer wrote: On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Mike Massee wrote: > WorldCon had asked XCOR to make a presentation, but then they wanted us to > pay for our guest memberships.   (WTF???) This is utterly standard for SF conventions, which typically don'

Re: [ERPS] CAD programs

2002-08-26 Thread Mike Massee
hand frame by frame, the way we used to.   The technology is so commonplace now that simpler versions are bundled with a lot of popular FX software. ---Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] CAD programs (and conversion software)

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Massee
___ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] ConJose Room Party

2002-08-30 Thread Mike Massee
will be working the rest of the day and will *only* be going to the room party. Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] Rotary Rocket on NPR (MP3 version now available)

2002-10-15 Thread Mike Massee
through RealAudio. Done... http://www.ranma.com/~harlock/rotary-book-NPR-interview.mp3 I suggest downloading this file and saving a local copy for yourselves. --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] Rutan

2002-10-19 Thread Mike Massee
n speculate all you wish.  :)   He first brought it out of the hangar just before Airventure, and it's been flying with increasing frequency as time goes on.  All I can say is that the aircraft is beautiful, even more interesting than the Proteus.  :D --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR

Re: [ERPS] Armadillo Nov 10

2002-11-10 Thread Mike Massee
sionfx.com/rsfk.htm)  I've used this for tests at XCOR to get a real good look at startup and shutdown transients. --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

Re: [ERPS] SoloTrek on ebay

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Massee
uld not operate the engines. --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace Web/Photo/Video/Concept Art

[ERPS] OT: SoloTrek on ebay

2003-01-07 Thread Mike Massee
Someone was asking what was going to happen to Trek Aerospace assets... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030106/ap_on_hi_te/ebay_flying_machine_1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030107/168/2znaf.html&e=9 :) Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR A

[ERPS] 2,400 lb-thrust amateur rocket launched from Canada

2003-06-29 Thread Mike Massee
http://www.canada.com/calgary/story.asp?id=6819FDC4-5A65-4BA7-AD2F-A2DF2087D957 Nice! Their home page: http://members.shaw.ca/team-o-canada/ lots of documentation. It's a replica of a Dauphin. Looks like a single solid rocket engine. --M Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace

[ERPS] Atlas vernier thrusters on Ebay

2003-07-18 Thread Mike Massee
anyone knows anybody who would want them. Obviously, we will not sell or ship to anybody outside the united states. --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor.com/ "A thirty-foot tongue of white hot flame lights up the midday desert floor - did you get that? 

[ERPS] Jeff Greason's recommended reading list now online

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Massee
.   It also includes a number of books on general engineering and workflow/ethics. --Mike Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor.com/

[ERPS] MSNBC article on Carmack

2003-10-11 Thread Mike Massee
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/bizjournal10-11-010204.asp?bizj=DAL It's a good one. Also mentions XCOR at the end. (that's why Google news alerts sent it to me...) --M Mike Massee [EMAIL PROTECTED] - XCOR Aerospace http://ww