Re: White Elephant (was Re: Naming 'the stick')



Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:11dip3qau6ia99a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


> I still think this is about the slickest flyback booster
> unit I ever saw: http://www.buran.ru/htm/strbaik.htm
> I'm still trying to make heads or tails of this one:
> http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/wintitan.htm

Popular Mechanics, no doubt. Way too many engines on
that wing, which looks borrowed from a B-47. (Could a
turbojet be run on hydrazine?)

Baikal looks considerably more rational.

--Damon
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