On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 01:52:46 -0800 Randall Clague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The 100th anniversary is on 12/17/2003, 362 > days away. The clock is > running. We need to get hot on POGO. That may > mean putting Spike on > the back burner next year. Dave M, can we get > a progress report on > POGO? Can we fly in under a year? While I know POGO is crucial to our further progress, due to its guidance capabilities, I am not convinced that moving Spike off the front burner is a good idea for our long term development. POGO-like vehicles have already been flown, and by more than one group. No-one has flown anything like Spike, and I would like to have an accomplishment like that to call our own, for fund-raising if nothing else. OTOH, fast-tracking POGO would bring up an interesting Spike possibility. Instead of the fin-guided ballistic Spike we have been contemplating, we could build our spike engine as a cluster of POGO engines, and fly a guided Spike, helping to prove out not only the spike nozzle concept but also the idea of using a relatively small number of conventional nozzles to feed a spike engine. It's just a brainstorm right now, but it might be worth taking a quick look at. -p _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
