On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 19:01, John Carmack wrote: > http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=256
Congratulations on such rapid progress and excellent flight. > I know it is ERPS policy not to do something a particular way just because > Armadillo did it that way, but I would Really Strongly urge you to consider > building pogo as a jet vane vehicle. Well it isn't ERPS policy to just reject something because Armadillo did it that way either, and beautiful flights always get my interest. How much of it is really that vanes are easier and how much is differences in your own experiences/knowledge and time working out the wrinkles? Or to put it another way - if you had started out with the vanes and then switched to differential throttling would you have gone through much of the same process? In reading your updates it seems like you have worked out a lot of bugs that would affect both vehicles. The other more technical thing - I'm not recalling if you were still using the solenoids and rapid on/off for throttling the differential setup. The vanes are continuously variable (even if the controller isn't), did you try a continuously variable valve setup on the differential throttling vehicle? Dave -- David Masten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
