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Stratolaunch's Monster Jet Completes First Test-Drive Down Runway
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| December 19, 2017 03:31pm ET
| Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor |
Posted on 12/19/2017 2:30:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:30:15 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
2 cockpit crews, perfect idea unless they both eat the fish.
To: BenLurkin
They can’t hire Chuck Yeager to put it through it’s paces tomorrow?
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:32:02 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
It’s hard to imagine the forces on that main spar...
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:33:49 PM PST
by
datura
To: BenLurkin
What will be it’s purpose?...............
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:36:29 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:37:07 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Tijeras_Slim; BenLurkin
One of the cockpits is a dummy.
I happened to be there in early June when they wheeled it out of the hanger for the first time. It is huge. The picture is good but the scale still is not obvious until you are there.
Paul Allen (Gates partner in MS and owner of the Sea Hawks) is the main money behind it. The amount of weight they can suspend from the middle is more than one would imagine — a whole rocket.
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:38:28 PM PST
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: Red Badger
Carries smaller rockets to high altitudes and they launch into orbit.
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:38:35 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
"...what will be its purpose..."
To carry satellites to cruising altitude and launch them from there.
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:38:39 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Red Badger
Unless someone plans on hanging something between, it seems hard to imagine the value.
To: BenLurkin
What could possibly go wrong...
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:41:20 PM PST
by
Newbomb Turk
(Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
To: Blue Jays; BenLurkin
Like they did with the X-planes and the B-52’s BACK IN THE 50’S..................
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:41:29 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
>
What will be it’s purpose? From the article:
...The private spaceflight company Stratolaunch is the brainchild of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The carrier plane is designed to make a runway-style takeoff and then, at cruising altitude, deploy rockets that can launch small satellites into low-Earth orbit...
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:41:30 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: KC Burke
One of the cockpits is a dummy.
To: dayglored
Old ideas are new again..................
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:42:36 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: datura
Imagine what happens when the one side of the aircraft hits a warm air pocket and the other doesn’t.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Beat me to it!.....................
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posted on
12/19/2017 2:42:59 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: BenLurkin
Silliest looking thing I’ve seen in a while. I looks like some perverted mashup. It needs more engines, maybe 4 in the middle and one more on each side.
To: Bartholomew Roberts
I think that’s what the middle section is for. Something bulky.
To: Red Badger; dfwgator
Had to work fast, was sure dfwgator would get there!
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