Comments on: Coast-To-Coast in 40 Minutes

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:25:39 +0000

Louis…

F=MA

Which means tens of thousands of dollars per passenger.

The Concorde couldn’t show a profit from NYC to Europe.

Who would these passengers be?

By: Louis Varricchio, M.Sc.

Louis Varricchio, M.Sc. — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:40:28 +0000

Talk, talk, talk that’s al we’ve seen about suborbital rocket transportation since the 1930s. So what are we the people waiting for? National leadership? Build the damned rockets and let’s go. Don’t look for this White House for future vision. The private sector needs to drive this in the New Age of American Navel Gazing.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:20:59 +0000

ERRCOMAN:
Tetraethellead was added to gasoline to reduce engine knock.
I don’t think Rocket Engines do that, so it wouldn’t be required.
The Saturn S-1 used Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen.
(Or was that jet fuel?)

By: ERRCOMAN

ERRCOMAN — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:34 +0000

What’s the octane on the gasoline???
Is it leaded??

By: JMyint

JMyint — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:31:21 +0000

Eugene SÃ¤nger, an Austrian, propose a combination of aircraft and rocket technology as the best and easiest way to get men into space. In the 1930’s he did systematic mathmatical studies of rockets for long range and space travel. During the Second World War while working for various German aircraft research institutes he solidified his design for the Silverbird Antipodal aircraft. The idea was for the Silverbird to skip on the upper atmosphere like a stone skips on the water. The flight plan outlined in this article is more like that of the X-15.

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/saenger.htm

http://www.astronautix.com/project/x15.htm

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:18:41 +0000

Torgo, was that the Antipodal Bomber?

By: Torgo

Torgo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:19:15 +0000

Interestingly the Germans had this idea in the 30’s — launch in Germany, bomb the US and land in Japan.