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Private, uncrewed, suborbital test flights to start this year.
In sci.physics Pat Flannery wrote:
On 5/12/2011 7:59 AM, Rick Jones wrote: What is that in English?-) - for example is 10,000 MSL 10,000 feet or something else? No flying up to 10,000 above sea level out on the salt flat at 31.2706 N, 104.4546 W (Google Earth shows their circular test pad there) near Van Horn, Texas and for a radius of 17 miles in any direction on Thursday, May 5, 2011 between 7 AM - 12 AM local time. The 17 miles is a little strange; one would have expected either 15 or 20 miles? Pat It is 15 miles statute; aviation miles are generally nautical. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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Private, uncrewed, suborbital test flights to start this year.
On May 13, 1:22*pm, wrote:
In sci.physics Pat Flannery wrote: On 5/12/2011 7:59 AM, Rick Jones wrote: What is that in English?-) - for example is 10,000 MSL 10,000 feet or something else? No flying up to 10,000 above sea level out on the salt flat at 31.2706 N, 104.4546 W (Google Earth shows their circular test pad there) near Van Horn, Texas and for a radius of 17 miles in any direction on Thursday, May 5, 2011 between 7 AM - 12 AM local time. The 17 miles is a little strange; one would have expected either 15 or 20 miles? Pat It is 15 miles statute; aviation miles are generally nautical. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. In case someone is reading this on a forum other than sci.physics where Jim already made a correction to his post, that 15 miles should have been 20 miles as nautical miles are longer than statute miles. Bob Clark |
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