oops, it crashed

I was amazed at the velocity before impact, was it only 190mph? The
profile kind of looks close to a flat plate that aerodynamicists talk about.
Maybe if we put a cat on board...

BP

"Saul Levy" wrote in message
...
I've seen drop contests on TV. They use protective packaging. The
better designs actually keep the egg whole in a 30-foot or so drop.
Amazing! Wish the Post Office knew about this...

Saul Levy


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 02:03:47 GMT, Odysseus
wrote:

G=EMC^2 Glazier wrote:

Hi Odysseus Landings are NASA biggest problems. Pilots know that.
Besides parachutes there are many ways to take away the force of a fast
landing.(stop) NASA should practice dropping eggs off the Sears Tower.
On TV I saw a contest how eggs were made to land from great heights,and
did not splat. Bert

What were some of the techniques used? The model-rocketry club I was
in for a while -- I must have been about twelve -- had "egg-lofting"
contests, but I don't recall anything more innovative than parachutes
or, on some of the smaller models, streamers being used to soften the
landings. The ejection charges in the engines (or sometimes the
nose-cone fittings) had a fairly high failure rate, but I remember at
least one brave soul actually managing to run out and safely catch
his falling payload.