Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!euclid.jpl.nasa.gov!pjs From: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Solar Impact Mission. Message-ID: <1991Feb5.165319.16692@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 5 Feb 91 16:53:19 GMT References: <1991Feb4.111437.9283@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <1991Feb4.172846.3706@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb5.154205.29266@engin.umich.edu> Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) Reply-To: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: euclid.jpl.nasa.gov In article <1991Feb5.154205.29266@engin.umich.edu>, theslim@engin.umich.edu (Eric Michael Slimko) writes: > In article <1991Feb4.172846.3706@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu > (Henry Spencer) writes: > > .... > > > > For really tight turns, what you want is a waverider design that can fly > > at high hypersonic speeds in an atmosphere. > > I've heard about this kind of thing-- it sounds like a neat ideaalthough > the aerodynamics of going that fast through an atmosphere would be rough, > not to mention the materials the waverider would have to be made out of. > Also, you'd better carry along big thrusters for correcting any errors > made in the manuever. Anyone in netland doing any research with high > velocity waveriders? Doubt that he's on the net, but Duncan Lunan was big on this when he gave a seminar on the topic here a few years ago. He was with an organization that was planning scale tests, off the coast of Scotland I believe. Wonder what happened to them? -- "Diane, I'm holding in my hand | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech a small box of chocolate bunnies" | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)