Re: Skylon SSTO


"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
:I think the turn-around time on this is going to be more like a SR-71
:than a airliner; you are talking about something that's going to get get
:at least red hot during flight. You are going to want to give it a real
:good going over between flights, because it's going to be in a flight
:environment where even a slight failure or flaw can be fatal.

Isn't that pretty much true of any aircraft? An airframe failure will
kill you. It doesn't matter how fast or slow you're going. It's that
fall with bits coming off that gets you...

I was watching a show about building the new terminal for Jet Blue at JFK
Airport and one of the steel workers (a foreman?) said that once you go up
beyond a couple of stories, the difference in height doesn't matter much.
In other words, you die just as easily from a fall from three stories as you
do from 30 or 300 stories.

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)


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