in article , Jeff Findley at
wrote on 8/3/06 12:35 PM:

"Kulvinder Singh Matharu" wrote in message
...

Somewhat similar to the Soviet Spiral space plane, but the Dream Chaser looks
much bigger:
http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/model1.jpg

That's because NASA copied (with some improvement) the Soviet Spiral design
when it created the HL-20...

Do you mean improvements like not having to slide along on watermelons in
order to get moving?

George Evans