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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems brings monster plane out of hangar for first time
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| May 31, 2017
| ALAN BOYLE
Posted on 05/31/2017 3:25:11 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: texas booster
The engines are cheap and reliable, and "so what" about efficiency, given the use of this aircraft. Not like commercial flight ...
Average Daily Flying Time - Airliners.net ... across thousands of planes, the fuel savings add up.
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:05:56 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: PROCON
THAT I understand. Does it, can it fly without a payload holding it together? Obviously it has to once it releases the rockets.
The back end as two independent units of horizontal stabilizer, rudder, and elevators each seems to me would be extremely difficult to maintain control.
Seems to me in other than perfectly controlled laboratory conditions this design is questionable.
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:22:45 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Anti-Bubba182; Noumenon
This is the outgrowth of Rutan’s White Knight (X-Prize) and White Knight Two (Virgin Galactic.
The concept goes back to the original X planes - Bell X-1, the X-2 up through the X-15, all carried to altitude by our then current largest bomber.
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:24:43 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: PLMerite
I saw a B47 do that at the south end of Boeing Field in Seattle in 1956.
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:29:30 PM PDT
by
Sicvee
(Sicvee)
To: PROCON
No wonder why he sold one of his yachts.............
To: SuperLuminal
Where do the payload (rockets) go? Hopefully, UP!
:-)
Mark
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:32:14 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: rockinqsranch
Burt Rutan aircraft designs
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:35:25 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:40:39 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: Sicvee
“I saw a B47 do that at the south end of Boeing Field in Seattle in 1956.”
Man, I bet that was cool. Both the B47 and the rockets.
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:42:12 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: PROCON
It's two, two, two planes in one!
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:43:24 PM PDT
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
05/31/2017 6:47:45 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: Karl Spooner
I visited the collection in February and did not see it. A google search makes it appear that it is still being restored (below)
The planes in the collection are 99% factory condition. The docents told me he’s a stickler for authenticity. That being the case, there must be lots of fabrication as there are no boneyards to scrounge for the 262
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.military/OjfAHbFgU3w
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posted on
05/31/2017 7:11:06 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
To: BwanaNdege
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posted on
05/31/2017 7:17:37 PM PDT
by
painter
( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
To: llevrok
To: Sirius Lee
“Break Left! ... No dammit, Break Right! ...”
To: PROCON
I was crossing the Mojave today and saw it with the hanger door open. I wondered if it was a Burt Rutan followup to Proteus and now I know what I saw.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:13:20 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: rockinqsranch
I think it is supposed to carry a payload like the Rutan plane the White Knight which lauched its load into orbital height.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:17:12 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: Moonman62; painter
Seems like a very low drag spar between the tails could stiffen things up, but may have interfered with the payload?
Asymmetric loads look like it might be an issue, but this is a Rutan design, so probably already factored in.
To: PeteePie
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posted on
06/01/2017 3:34:19 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: Noumenon
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posted on
06/01/2017 3:59:54 AM PDT
by
wita
(Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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