1 posted on
09/04/2005 9:22:07 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I don't get it. Two miles high and 12-minute duration...this is a record breaker?
2 posted on
09/04/2005 4:56:40 PM PDT by
Rudder
To: KevinDavis
A long-way-to-go-to-space ping? ;')
3 posted on
09/10/2005 5:19:13 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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4 posted on
09/11/2005 9:56:40 AM PDT by
KevinDavis
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To: BenLurkin
With the current world record mark at 110 feet I wonder why they don't include the ME-163 Comet from WW2 in the records? Those were rocket airplanes and they had a range a lot further than that.
6 posted on
09/11/2005 10:48:39 AM PDT by
Joe Miner
To: BenLurkin
the flight was designed specifically to prepare for the project's next milestone: a world distance record for a rocket-powered aircraft. The planned record-setting flight will be piloted by noted aviator Dick Rutan, XCOR's original test pilot. This record run will come nowhere near his other distance records for around-the-world flights, however.
With the current world record mark at 110 feet - set by an ultralight outfitted with hobby rocket motors - the EZ-Rocket team expects to raise the bar with a flight from Mojave to California City.
Not too high a bar to surpass, or is this a typo?
7 posted on
09/11/2005 10:50:47 AM PDT by
RJL
To: BenLurkin
Seems to be some confusion about EZ-rocket. A lot of people have apparently come to expect Rutan to perform ever greater spectaculars, not noticing that garage-built hobby airplanes have been his main interest all along.
9 posted on
09/11/2005 12:06:42 PM PDT by
RightWhale
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