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Around the World, With 13 Fuel Tanks and a Single Seat
NY Times ^
| November 30, 2004
| MATTHEW L. WALD
Posted on 11/30/2004 10:13:12 AM PST by presidio9
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:13:12 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Cool! I hope they make it.
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:18:27 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:19:31 AM PST
by
ZGuy
To: presidio9
Ok.
70 Hours.
Snug in a coffin.
Question: How do you evacuate it when you have to take a dump?
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:21:04 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
To: presidio9
I like to get out and stretch after 2 or 3 hours.
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:22:11 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
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To: presidio9
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:24:55 AM PST
by
investigateworld
(( Another Cali refugee in Oregon . ))
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:26:22 AM PST
by
frithguild
(Withdraw from the 1967 Treaty on the Exploration an Use of Outer Space - Establish Private Property)
To: roaddog727
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:26:34 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: presidio9
I guess Virgin CEO Richard Branson's years of derring-do are over.
If my memory serves, Steve Fossett was his biggest rival in the hot air balloon world, and now they're teaming together on this one.
It looks more like a balsa wood glider than anything else!
I wish him the best of good fortune in his flight.
D
To: roaddog727
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:30:05 AM PST
by
cav68
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:40:37 AM PST
by
Aeronaut
(This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki)
To: frithguild
Stretched out JET P-38
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:41:40 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Let the embeds check the bodies!)
To: presidio9
"Technicians at Scaled Composites, the company that built the plane, like to call it the Flying Fuel Tank."People have applied similar monikers to the Spirit of St. Louis.
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:46:42 AM PST
by
Dan Middleton
(To the everlasting glory of the infantry shines the name of Roger Young!)
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/30/2004 10:58:43 AM PST
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 61,103,636 Bush fans.)
To: roaddog727
they will prolly work on his diet a few days before takeoff and give him an evacuator the night before launch so his bowel's empty and he weighs less too.
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:27:45 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©® - Dubya... F**K YEAH!!!)
To: presidio9
Mr. Rutan seems to be an aviation giant with things to do and build. I'm glad I'm around to see his creative efforts take to the sky.
mc
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:32:33 AM PST
by
mcshot
(Boldly going nowhere fast.)
To: presidio9
At the risk of being a spoil sport, it seems to me that it would be pretty easy to do a solo, around the world, unrefueled flight by taking a 747, stripping out all the seats and adding additional fuel tanks in the cargo hold and the passenger compartment.
You'd probably have to overload it a bit and the takeoff would be a little hairy, but that also seems to be the case with Rutan's design.
To: presidio9
"No one's willing to sleep with the autopilot yet." They need to talk with Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover. When those two were working on the X1 project, they would fly all night to have long weekends back home (In NC, I think).
They flew in Cessna "Bamboo Bombers", and would engage the autopilot and lay down in the center isle of the airplane and take "naps". They took a windup alarm clock to wake them up every 15-30 minutes so they could make sure they were on course.
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:50:35 AM PST
by
narby
To: presidio9
But mission planners are leaning toward an old air base in Salina, Kan., with a suitably long runway I landed there a few months ago. I aimed about mid-field for a turn to downwind, and on downwind I thought I never would get to the numbers. I didn't really realize until after I landed how big the runway was. 15000 feet or so.
Waiting to takeoff, busness jets were taking off from midfield rather than taxi to the end. I was taught to NEVER take off from midfield, just because "you never know". But with 3 miles of runway, why not?
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posted on
11/30/2004 11:55:09 AM PST
by
narby
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/30/2004 12:08:44 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
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