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rocket racing
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:27 pm
by rijruna1
I just saw this on a news show. Wonder how much it`d cost to get a team together, any of the mega-rich among u, maybe?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/
http://www.luxist.com/entry/1234000683061626/
Yep, i`d like a ride
cheers
rij
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:41 pm
by Mobius
Think three words: fiery fatal crashes!
It'll be like the old days, when guys drove cars without rollover cages, in leather helmets! Clearly those guys were heroes, or idiots, and possibly both.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:11 am
by will_kill
welp..there goes the atmosphere
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:14 am
by Iceman
Man that looks to be awesome fun.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:23 am
by Wang_Lo
wow....just wow. But i dont' see any planes plastered with Viagra commercials and what not though.....
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:34 pm
by roid
OH MY ★■◆●ing GOD
welcome to the future folks
rocket racing
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:34 am
by rijruna1
hhhmmmm another thought passed my amused mind.
Wonder if pulsing the `burner will do as in d3?
It did bring to mind OGR for a sec when I first saw it.
heheheh & yay i beat roid to it!!!
cheers
rij
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:17 am
by Dedman
The first time one of those things "augers in" it will be quite a show.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:10 am
by roid
btw the first race is september 2006.
that's only next year.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:26 am
by Richard Cranium
That wing design isn't going to work. At the speed they want to go they won't have enough control surface to keep them under control.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:05 am
by Iceman
I believe that you are wrong there RC. Looks to me like a solid design and ... well ... the faster they go the more quickly the lift builds (see bernoulli principle). The wings have a great deal of curvature on the top surface especially at the fuselage junction. Couple that with the awesome control that the forward canards will add and I think they will fly unbelievably ...
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:16 pm
by Dedman
The designs in the pics look like a stylized version of the Long EZ. I believe that Rutan has tested that design with a rocket in it and it did just fine.
And Iceman, the Bernoulli principal is out dated as a model to explian lift.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:12 pm
by Richard Cranium
I thought the faster you go forces the effective control to the rear of the wing. Isn't that why they sweep the wings to the rear and give them larger control surface on super-sonic air crafts? (I know these are only going about 1/2 sonic speeds).
RC