Re: Trust But Verify ...
From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:44:53 -0500
Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
>
>Both claims a complete nonsence. Neither Buran was a copy of US Shuttle,
>nor Tu-144 was a copy of Concorde. Actually, it's strange to hear this
>rather irrelevant Tu-144 - Concorde resemblance mentioned in connection
>with this issue. As anyone with even basic knowledge of Tu-144 -
>Concorde story knows, even if it is worth mentioning such issues here it
>is more of a Concorde being a copy of Tu-144, not the other way around.
>
On the other hand, TsAGI was dead set against delta wings on aircraft
without horizontal tail surfaces...until the Tu-144 was built. Then
there is the quest for the Concorde tire rubber formula on the part of
Soviet intelligence.
As for the Buran, get real- not only is it a copy, it's aerodynamically
a very close copy... the earlier Soviet shuttle designs were far
different looking than the American Shuttle:
http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/ruslanes.htm
On the other hand, we ripped off the HL-20 from the Soviet
"Spiral/Uragon" series of spaceplane designs:
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/s/spiral3v.jpg
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/u/uraganb4.gif
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/h/hl203vw.gif
Pat
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