--- "Sean R. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <http://www.techcentralstation.com/102403B.html> > and > <http://www.smithinst.ac.uk/Projects/ESGI40-VRC/index_html> > > Seems like this might shift the economics of wings > for spacecraft a bit, > especially for any craft that spends a lot of its > flight profile in the > atmosphere. I'm referring more to the wave drag > elimination than getting > rid of the sonic boom, but getting rid of the sonic > boom is a nice side > effect :)
We can hope. But am I reading the report right that, for the system as proposed (reflecting the shock wave from the wing with a Mach 4 stream underneath the wing), it'd still let over 90% of the shock wave through to the ground (when the airplane as a whole is doing Mach 2)? Also, wouldn't whatever generates the reflecting stream generate its own shock wave (which it itself could not reflect)? _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
