From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 08:13:45 MDT
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Doug Jones wrote:
> This engine could also be useful for other markets (sorry, that info is
> NDA'd), and we could easily scale it up or down after the initial
> development. I came up with a really slick fabrication technique which
> should reduce the parts count and number of welds significantly, and we
> have several other tricks up our sleeves.
Wow. Hope you guys can do a show and tell at Oshkosh next year. There is
growing interest in amatuer rocketplanes, and this sounds like a nice
engine, combined with a modern composite airframe, for a lively little
single seat TAV.
Reminds me of a story I read in Analog many years ago, about a Shuttle
pilot who winds up in a parellel universe where the gubmint never got into
rockets and space travel, and it grew up as a hobby/spectator sport. A
few hundred dead pilots later, the Boy Scouts had there own space station
and Jerry Pournelle was mayor of Luna City.
Steve
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