Douglas, Brent wrote:
I was curious about that feather mode, too. Looking at the flight on
TV, it looks like the tail sticking up makes the ship fall flat, eg, so
that it exposes the bottom of the wings and fuse to the air flow.
Does that sound accurate to anyone that watched?
Anyone saving up
David Schat wrote:
jaffee wrote:
I don't want to diminish anything Rutan has done...
I'm no Rocket Scientist but don't orbital craft fire the motors in
"reverse" to slow them down for re-entry? Couldn't the craft fire it's
motor a bit longer and at full power to increase the decent angle to
jaffee wrote:
I don't want to diminish anything Rutan has done...
I'm no Rocket Scientist but don't orbital craft fire the motors in "reverse"
to slow them down for re-entry? Couldn't the craft fire it's motor a bit
longer and at full power to increase the decent angle to one that might
per
jaffee wrote:
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I don't want to diminish anything Rutan has done...I think it's awesome...but
I doubt the feather rentry mode would work for an orbital craft. SS1
re-enters the atmosphere at Mach 3-4. An orbital craft does so at Mach 25!
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I have some doubts about that myself.
As a
Looks like a FF model de-thermalizing... Amazing that they are able to
re-enter without heat sheilds.
Douglas, Brent wrote:
I was curious about that feather mode, too. Looking at the flight on
TV, it looks like the tail sticking up makes the ship fall flat, eg, so
that it exposes the bottom of t
I was curious about that feather mode, too. Looking at the flight on
TV, it looks like the tail sticking up makes the ship fall flat, eg, so
that it exposes the bottom of the wings and fuse to the air flow.
Does that sound accurate to anyone that watched?
Anyone saving up for a flight? For th
Dan Ashenfelter wrote:
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I have a question about the aerodynamics of SpaceShip 1, specifically the
"feather" mode. Is the descent controlled in a manner similar to a
free-flight's pop-up dethermalizer or some other means?
<<<
The "Feather" descent pretty much does emulate a pop-stab
Chuck Anderson wrote:
Science channel is spending three hours on Burt Rutan and SpaceShip
One tonight. So far, they have shown testing gliding a foam model of
SpaceShip One in normal glide mode and feather mode. They are
showing reruns of all three hours later tonight.
Chuck Anderson
RCSE-L
I have a question about the aerodynamics of SpaceShip 1, specifically the
"feather" mode. Is the descent controlled in a manner similar to a
free-flight's pop-up dethermalizer or some other means?
So far I have not been able to find any good info.
Thanks
Dan Ashenfelter
Science channel is spe
Science channel is spending three hours on Burt Rutan and SpaceShip One
tonight. So far, they have shown testing gliding a foam model of
SpaceShip One in normal glide mode and feather mode. They are showing
reruns of all three hours later tonight.
Chuck Anderson
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