Re: Skylon SSTO
Fred J. McCall wrote:
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 flew on a Soviet Il-62 with a screw missing from its top wing access
panel and a leaking emergency escape hatch (that I was sitting right
next to- frost covering, hissing noise, and all.)
At those Mach numbers and as lightly built as this aircraft is going to
have to be to work, if something goes even slightly wrong that causes it
to diverge from its intended flightpath it's going to come apart almost
instantly. It's got all the structural toughness of the Space Shuttle or
the Hindenburg.
Pat
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