Posted on 08/15/2012 11:23:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
They (another team) pulled off the rocket hovering, cable lowering of the martian rover a few days ago. THAT was impressive.
This is much lower budget, with room for error. They are using that room.
The difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer........
Lots of work going on with the supersonic/hyperspeed air breathing engines since the 60s, still not there yet
Agreed. But ponder this: Is there any other animal on earth that would climb into an aluminum tube and allow themselves to be hurled through the air at supersonic speed like this? And we are the smart ones?
the same “animal” has airconditioning and gets around on in a land vehicle which is powered by causing little explosions.
Horses could outrun the first cars too.
It's grrrrr ATE !
Even if it is in a few hundred small pieces on the sea floor I expect that the Navy will expend a lot of resources recovering the X-51A. An opponent could learn a lot about hypersonic flight just by analyzing the materials used.
Thanks. Nice break away...
Will admit I find it a bit funny though, in that they don’t explain that air intake below, and what the captured compacted air is used for.
Instead they point to JP-7 fuel and the associated fuel systems.
I realize the thing has to get past a threshold, so the JP-7 is needed, but it’s what happens next that is the real excitement here.
Great movie...
Several days ago they said there were no plans for recovery.
Perhaps they expect the whole thing to burn up on re-entry. ;^)
It all depends on how small the pieces of the person are.... but that was another news story.
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