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Another Hybrid I want to drive!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by frbill, Sep 29, 2004.

  1. frbill

    frbill New Member

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    Congrats to Mike Mellville and Burt Rutan on their successful first X-prize flight. They use a Hybrid engine on the Spaceship one. I was locked into their flight on the internet and fox and it was incredible. It won't be long and I can catch a suborbital shot... Now I just need to save up 300K... Saving my $ in hope of a price drop :)

    Peace,

    Fr. Bill
     
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    A bit scary when it corkscrewed on the powered ascent!
     
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    I agree but Mike said it was a victory roll.... I can't wait to hear the science debrief in a couple of weeks.

    Peace,

    Fr. Bill
     
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    Hey Fr. Bill..... a little closer to the creator, eh!
     
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    come on... they called it a snap roll.. I tried that in a Piper Cub as a student pile-it...

    Bob Andersen
     
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    bookrats New Member

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    No, not the barrel roll during the decent, while gliding -- I thought that was cool. Can't picture NASA letting you do that on your decent... :)

    What I was refering to was when the ship started to spin, on it's ascent up; that looked fairly dicey, and not something planned.

    But, I don't know -- maybe it was. I'm with you, Fr. Bill -- will be very interested to see the write-up in a few weeks!
     
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    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    the pilot said he thought he figured out what the problem was although Rutan said that they would have to analyze the flight data to acertain or verify what happened.
     
    #7 DaveinOlyWA, Sep 29, 2004
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