05-03-2017, 10:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by PeterAlway
If you scroll to the bottom of the patent, you will see that Blue Origin cites our patent in several of their patents.
The little devil on my left shoulder is suggesting I should use that to leverage some scale data out of spacex. But the little devil on my right shoulder is telling me that would be too much work. I'll be listening to the one on my right shoulder.
Peter Alway
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I thought the left-shoulder denizen was a little angel--or unicorn... :-) SpaceX already offers a BT-60 size "Falcon 9 and Fairing" model rocket kit (and Boyce Aerospace Hobbies makes 3D printed scale accurizing parts for the Falcon 9). Also:
In a 1950s-vintage book that I read over 30 years ago, the Mars Snooper--an actual proposed design that inspired the classic Estes kit--was shown in an illustration. It was designed to fly backwards in the Martian atmosphere (its "V-planform" tail fins acted as wings, while its forward canard surfaces served as tail surfaces during atmospheric flight), as a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. The nozzle of a nuclear rocket engine in its base doubled as the nuclear turbojet's air intake. |