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rebuttal to Jeffrey Bell on "StuntShipOne"
Jeff Findley wrote:
It would if you come up with another source for your high pressure air. That would be a different system (the "S" in RCS). I see your point, but what if we get our source of hot air from a pre-burner on a staged combustion rocket engine? Fine, but it would still be a different RCS (i.e., one designed for a spaceship) than the one in the Harrier. |
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rebuttal to Jeffrey Bell on "StuntShipOne"
"Rand Simberg" wrote in message nk.net... Jeff Findley wrote: I see your point, but what if we get our source of hot air from a pre-burner on a staged combustion rocket engine? Fine, but it would still be a different RCS (i.e., one designed for a spaceship) than the one in the Harrier. I think you're right. As Mary points out, the Harrier RCS is just a complicated thrust vectoring system attached to the jet engine. Jeff -- Remove icky phrase from email address to get a valid address. |
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rebuttal to Jeffrey Bell on "StuntShipOne"
Rand Simberg wrote:
Jeff Findley wrote: It would if you come up with another source for your high pressure air. That would be a different system (the "S" in RCS). I see your point, but what if we get our source of hot air from a pre-burner on a staged combustion rocket engine? Fine, but it would still be a different RCS (i.e., one designed for a spaceship) than the one in the Harrier. Uhh.. it doesn't matter if it would be a similar or different RCS, but that Harrier is a good demonstration why specfying "has RCS" for "is spaceship" is bad. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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rebuttal to Jeffrey Bell on "StuntShipOne"
Sander Vesik wrote:
Fine, but it would still be a different RCS (i.e., one designed for a spaceship) than the one in the Harrier. Uhh.. it doesn't matter if it would be a similar or different RCS, but that Harrier is a good demonstration why specfying "has RCS" for "is spaceship" is bad. Not if it's specifiec as an RCS designed to work in space (which is implicit). |
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rebuttal to Jeffrey Bell on "StuntShipOne"
Rand Simberg wrote:
Not if it's specifiec as an RCS designed to work in space (which is implicit). That should have been "specified." |
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