Space Cruiser Again was Re: All Democrats will soon be working in Martian mines

From: Scott Lowther (scottlowther_at_ix.netcom.SPAMBLOK.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:55:53 GMT

Pat Flannery wrote:

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> Scott Lowther wrote:
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>>> Shhh...don't torque him off...he's still got the second part of the
>>> Space Cruiser article to put up on the web! ;-)
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>> And third, and fourth...
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> That much info, huh?

Some of it will be new, and likely produced by Yours Truly. A company
was formed a few years back specifically to try to market the SC. In the
1990's an updated version of the SC was designed that had an ejector
rocket booster section nailed to it's ass... launch from a C-130 or an
SR-71 and make it to orbit. I've got what data there is (got it from the
guy who designed that bit actually); the drawings, however, are
pretty... welll... Let's just say I plan to redo them in CAD.

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> I was going through my copy of Gatland's "Frontiers Of Space" last
> night, and ran into the Lockheed Flourine/LH2 powered lifting body
> transatmosheric vehicle illustration with the swing-out wings...was
> the Lockheed FDL-5 design supposed to use Flourine/LH2?

There was no single FDL-5 design. Numerous companies used the basic FDL
(Flight Dynamics Lab - USAF, Wright-Pattterson AFB) -5 geometry, from
the 1960's into at leat the 1986 and beyond tiemframe, when Rockwell ahd
a bigger version for the TAV program. Like the basic X-33 shape, there
are a number of generic lifting body configurations worked out in the
1960's that have boodles of aero data ready for the using.

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