To: Rio
Dammed in that does not look like a space plane right out of an early 50’s Science Fiction movie....glad to see the UK up to doing it after the a--hole left has killed our space program
12 posted on
05/24/2011 4:26:51 PM PDT by
tophat9000
(Global Warming, undeniable truth; Obama, infallible genius; Apple perfect, invented everything)
To: tophat9000
The nose (that canard-looking tip) looks like Von Braun’s proposed Mars vehicle; overall, it reminds me of the SR-71. The variable geometry inlet on the proposed engine appears to work the same way as the SR-71’s engine.
26 posted on
05/24/2011 6:00:27 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: tophat9000
Looks sorta like this:
To: tophat9000
The Brits have always had cool "paper" rockets. ;)
43 posted on
05/24/2011 8:34:37 PM PDT by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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