Another great scientific breakthrough from many Media outlets today: The Scramjet tested at Woomera "burns oxygen" so can travel into space at hypersonic speed !!!!!!!!!! (At least the ABC TV news did mention that hydrogen was included in the equation, but not mentioned as a fuel...) Cheers, John G.
----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 4:49 PM Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] : Non-member submission from["McDonnell, Christopher (IRCC/WCT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | The Herc landed and taxied in (all under its own power) whilst I was out on | the tarmac in the bomb bay of a P-3 at Edinburgh. No sign of any | modification to fit an impromptu nose release.... | | It has shades of an international competition to build a reusable space | vehicle for space tourism. One contender is reportedly designing a rocket | powered space-plane that is supposed to be towed to 'launch' altitude behind | a 747. Wouldn't that be interesting! I wonder if they would use high or | low tow? | | Anthony | | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon | Hackett | Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 3:57 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [aus-soaring] Fwd: BOUNCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Non-member submission from ["McDonnell, Christopher (IRCC/WCT)" | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | | > | >According to todays Adelaide Murdoch press the Hercules that emergency | >landed at Adelaide Airport yesterday was later in the day towed to RAAF | >Edinburgh. Given it's span I assume it was not towed through the streets so | >it must have been aerotowed. Does anyone know what the RAAF used as a tug | >:-) | > | >Another fine example of aviation reporting by the popular press. | | | -- | | --- | Simon Hackett, Technical Director, Internode Systems Pty Ltd | 31 York St [PO Box 284, Rundle Mall], Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.internode.on.net | Phone: +61-8-8223-2999 Fax: +61-8-8223-1777 | | -- | * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. | * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message | * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. | | | -- | * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. | * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message | * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. | | -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
