On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:31:35 +0000, Ian Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Where do you imagine we'll fly POGO that's cold enough to matter? >> >Hmm. I haven't checked but I would expect launch licenses would be >easier to get near Ottawa or Toronto ;-) > >You'd have difficulty getting an export permit, but you could always >rebuild it in Canada, and I'm sure Henry would do the honours of >actually launching it. Wouldn't work. FAA applies the 51% rule to launch licensing, not just experimental aircraft. ERPS being more than 51% Americans, we'd need a launch license no matter who pushed the button or where we flew it. We could sell it to daVinci, and let them launch it - but that's not going to happen. :-) Caveat #1: POGO won't need a launch license. Its performance is too low. It couldn't reach 25,000 feet MSL unless we launched it from Quito. And even then I'm not sure it could reach 25,000 feet AGL. In neither case could it soft land afterward. POGO will need a waiver on burn time, but that should be easy enough. I'll just show that it can only go x km (x has yet to be determined for the Mk 1, but it's in the single digits), and there's no one else out here. Caveat #2: It actually is easier to get a launch license than an export permit, for a rocket vehicle. Having talked to both primary contacts, at FAA and DTRA, I'd much rather deal with FAA. I liked the guy at DTRA, and found him very helpful, but I strongly suspect that was because I wasn't trying to get an export permit. (I was trying to verify that we didn't need an export permit to have foreign nationals on the development team. We don't.) DTRA also has no statutory obligation to promote the export of controlled technology, as FAA has a statutory obligation to promote licensed launches. And you know, I actually looked at both Toronto and Ottawa as candidate nodes in a global express delivery network. I concluded that they're both too close to New York, though Toronto could be served equally well by Chicago. Gotta go where the market is... -R -- "...And the last thing I remember is asking, 'What could go wrong?'" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
