An SSTO missed opportunity.

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:36:09PM -0700, William Mook wrote:
On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 5:28:37 PM UTC+12, Fred J. McCall wrote:
William Mook wrote:

On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 6:27:19 PM UTC-4, Fred J. McCall wrote:

Steve, you're another one who needs to seek some mental health care.
It's free in Canada. Get some.


You're the one who can't read sir, and you're the one who needs psychological counseling.


You're obviously oblivious to 'Uncle Steve' and his posting history.
His paranoid schizophrenic delusions make you look almost sane.

Interesting you draw attention to another's posting history and make such conclusions while ignoring your own insanity.



The aerospike engine was developed in the post-Apollo era and then classified. It was declassified, or portions were, during Reagan's SDI. It has since that time drifted back into classified territory. The FDL-5 was likely the first aerospike space plane that pre-dated the shuttle.


The aerospike engine was never 'classified'.

Nonsense. That's like saying jet engines were never classified!

http://fly.historicwings.com/2012/10...cas-first-jet/

Some particular engine
may or may not have been slated for some classified effort,

Ya think! lol.

but that's
something else again.

Nonsense! The history of the engine and the aicraft and spacecraft that use it, make it clear, the aerospike is in broad use on black programs and for whatever reason has not easily transitioned to the white world.

And vehicles that never existed are not an 'operational use' of any
particular technology.

I mentioned elsewhere that historians and analysts who track Lockheed and Boeing come to a different conclusion about what is operational and what is not.


For someone who's lived through this period and read Aviation Week and other relevant industry press, its obvious that aerospike has functioned and is likely functioning in several roles to this day.


Handwavium.

If you actually tracked the industry you blather on about you'd see I am right and you are wrong.


Saying that there are vast uncertainties surrounding the use of the aerospike is not a reasonable position given this history.


Mookie, can you seriously believe there are 'secret' space programs
that people don't know about? The minute you launch them they're too
hard to hide.

That depends on the details.



Another interesting fact is;


MookLoony Conspiracy Theory removed

As always, you do looney things and believe even loonier things, and call those who point this out to you crazy and refuse to even let others know of them.

Seek help.

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/leas/file...t_help_014.jpg

So much talk of the Kremlin's troll army, but how many assholes does
the Pentagon have prowling the Internet? Anyone with half a brain can
see that Fred's hypocrisy is insultingly obvious and unnatural. It
must be malicious propaganda. Produced by stupid people, for stupid
reasons.

And of course there's 1/10 of 1 percent of his posted content that
he's really, really smug about.

But ideologically Fred is really kind of like a cranky baby. His
diapers are soiled and he's got a bit of upchuck on his shirt. He's
uncomfortable but he doesn't quite know why, although he secretly
suspects that everyone is at fault. Mommy seems to be busy at the
moment so he isn't getting the attention he wants, and that makes him
cry. To gain attention he smashes and throws things and threatens to
become an even bigger problem in his second year.

I think just about everyone knows that you can't reason with a big baby.


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