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I take it from the dates this was intended as a shuttle replacement?
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Yes, and it would be ridiculously easy to do so, and especially in a larger size. It doesnt have much wing area and that wing is located pretty far aft on the main body. That V tail looks cool too, I cant remember the last time I built any larger glider with one. In fact, since this design is pretty 'nosy', it would be incumbent to make sure that what ever you use for BT and NC are the lightest possible, or youll get a glide CG way too far forward. Probably the best way is to make an 'LV' type like I did with that BT-80 Bomarc on an E9 deal. While this doesnt have much wing area per se, it does have a pretty thin high AR planform, so any material too prone to flutter and warping isnt good here. Ill probably make an 80 sized version of this once I either can get more long BT80s or even a good gift wrap roll. Only hitch is making ruddervators but the old 2x band/clip suffices. |
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One future option that was under study was a manned VTOVL (Vertical Take-Off/Vertical Landing) spacecraft similar to McDonnell Douglas' Clipper Graham DC-X test vehicle (it was built and flight-tested in the 1990s) that would have served as a second stage carried by one or two Star Boosters. The combination would have been a fully-reusable TSTO (Two-Stage-To-Orbit) space transportation system. Making the VTOVL spacecraft a second stage instead of a SSTO (Single-Stage-To-Orbit) vehicle as originally envisioned would have made it considerably less difficult to design and build, since the TSTO version's mass ratio would not have been nearly as hard to achieve as the mass ratio required for the SSTO version.
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