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XCOR Rocket Plane Soars into Record Book
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| 03 December 2005
| Leonard David
Posted on 12/03/2005 6:44:22 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
So, what exactly was the record broken?
A point-to-point record means what?
(please forgive me if this is an inane question.)
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12/03/2005 6:46:48 PM PST
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Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Needs a picture:
To: Dan Cooper
"He's down and safe," Kinda like what my wife IM'd her mother on our wedding night.
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12/03/2005 6:53:38 PM PST
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billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
What's the point of a rocket plane? Is the atmosphere getting too thin to support combustion?
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12/03/2005 6:54:29 PM PST
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Dan Evans
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Dick Rutan is one amazing fellow.
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To: bobbdobbs
Basically, rockets have the fuel consumption of jets and the turbulence of propellers, right?
I guess the idea is to refine the design of rockets to the point where they'd be useful for airplanes.
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12/03/2005 7:01:39 PM PST
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Termite_Commander
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To: billorites
To: Termite_Commander
Here is XCOR's sub-orbital concept:
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
To: Dan Evans
What's the point of a rocket plane? Is the atmosphere getting too thin to support combustion? Maybe they have higher goals in mind.
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posted on
12/03/2005 7:11:00 PM PST
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Dan Evans
Oops. That's with a prop. The rocket costs an additional half a million.
To: Dan Cooper
Looks like a cross between an F-18 and the Space Shuttle.
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12/03/2005 7:16:12 PM PST
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Termite_Commander
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To: Termite_Commander
By the way, in response to my own question, I'm guessing that the record broken was from point A to point B in a privately developed rocket-powered plane, which is why Air Force and NASA developed vehicles wouldn't have qualified for breaking it (since they're government funded).
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12/03/2005 7:20:53 PM PST
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Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
To: Dan Cooper
sub-orbital concept huh? Not impressed. Not one measly little bit impressed.
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posted on
12/03/2005 7:25:19 PM PST
by
Flightdeck
(Longhorns+January=Rose Bowl Repeat)
To: Termite_Commander
It looks like this may be a distance record for for take off and landing of a rocket plane. So the NASA planes would not qualify because they were dropped from a larger craft:
"As far as we know, it'll be the first intentional cross-country flight of a rocket plane...and the first roundtrip under power,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/xcorrocketplaneeyespointtopointrecord
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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12/03/2005 7:29:18 PM PST
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VOA
To: Flightdeck
To get into orbit would take at least 7,000 times as much fuel.
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