In article ,
Jeff Findley wrote:
If we're talking about the same flight profile (carrier aircraft lifts
hybrid powered spacecraft which is dropped and ascends to 100 km), what
would need to be different, aside from scaling the design up by a factor of
two?

Lose the stupid portholes, so you don't need a chase aircraft as an escort
because of lousy cockpit view.
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