At 11:42 PM 5/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>John Carmack wrote:
> >
> >
> > You are running ahead of us, but not too much.  We are on our fifth drum of
> > peroxide now.
>
>Well, that's just the _latest_ batch of empties, we've gone through
>about 10 or 12 altogether :)
>

I concede.  We won't have that much run time until next year...

> > >Incidentally, the EZ-Rocket with both engines going is a high S-1400
> > >system; modest thrust but long duration. The propellant cost are about
> > >equal to the labor cost of maintaining and operating the aircraft.
> >
> > Shouldn't dual 400 lbf engines be a total of 3500 N thrust?
>
>Yeah, I brainfaded and listed only one engine's worth, and we're only
>operating them at about 80% of design thrust (never bothered to ream out
>the orifices for higher thrust since it seemed a tad overpowered
>anyway).
>
>Doug Jones

What, you are telling us that your 400 pounds thrust engines are really 320 
pound thrust engines?  A tad disingenuous.

And come on, don't you really want "grossly overpowered" in your rocket 
plane? :-)

John Carmack

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