"Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast." (twostrokesmoke)
12/15/2014 at 12:55 • Filed to: None
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"Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast." (twostrokesmoke)
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Yep. A space plane. Any Aerolopniks know if this is real or just vaporware?
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Chris Clarke
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
12/15/2014 at 13:16 |
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I think test flights scheduled 5 years out qualifies this as vaporware. I would expect this technology in the military long before we see anything useful for civil aviation.
BorkBorkBjork
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
12/15/2014 at 13:26 |
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Pretty sure that design has been around for a long time, guaranteed vaporware.
Edit: Yep, design work started in 1982
Mattbob
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
12/15/2014 at 13:26 |
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I'm just speculating, but it sounds like horse shit.
Grindintosecond
> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
12/15/2014 at 14:50 |
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The concord was never profitable. For as long as it existed, it lost money. There wasn't a market large enough without restrictions to allow enough of them to be built and sold and used as intended. Conventional construction of SST types of fast transport are limited to about Mach 1.6 before air friction raises temperature beyond material limits. So, this vehicle is not only a single stage to orbit plane, but super expensive material costs. Project is listed as being a total development of over $12billion yet a unit cost of $250 million. So they need to sell 48 to break even. That's silly. Their own math. Maintenance is of course going to be expensive. This is the vapor of wares.