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Old October 7th 05, 06:43 AM
Bruce Hoult
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Joann Evans wrote:

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember reading somewhere in the last
year or so, of someone re-making (though not with the same rocket engine
design) the Me-163 Komet....


That was one of the ideas XCOR floated -- along with a Bell X-1 replica
-- at the time that they had built rocket engines but didn't have
anything to demonstrate them on. When no customers appeared wanting an
X-1 or Me-163 replica they put their engines onto the chief engineer's
personal Long-Ez as a demonstration aircraft.

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