O/T Space plane

[Camdude®]

Congrats to Scaled Composites for a successful sub-orbital flight 62.5 miles up and back again.

Yankee ingenuity at it's best. anybody here do any work for them.

 

phil teh "trying to stay away from the politcal mine field in here."

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

That's like ... what, 380,000 feet???

 

KEWL

 

James teh getting both feet wet!!!

[Camdude®]

give or take a few inches, that raises a point, where on the plane is the measurement taken from the pilot position or the top of the canopy.

p.s. james , what happened to the spinning beanie

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Just curious - will WCS support distance 380,000 feet ?

 

Teh humbliero

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

It's spinning frommy end...

 

It's taken from the lowest point on the object I think...

 

I dig your avatar man. He's the coolest.

 

James teh unsure

[Philcott]

James,

 

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I dig your avatar man. He's the coolest.

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Did you see who the cameras picked up on Mars?

 

Thats right.

 

Marvin is still up there.

 

 

Phil

[Bullines]

I wanted to see what some of the Canucks had in the works (Canadian Arrow, daVinci). I also wanted to see Armadillo Aerospace's since it's led by John Carmack (he's 3D engine whiz behind Doom, Quake, etc).

[Camdude®]

network a little slow today, i see ya spinning now.

winnie, i think 380,000 feet is outside the design envelope for Mcam.

[Camdude®]

phil,

that's my desktop background, couldn't resist when i saw it...phil

[Mark Lovelace]

The funny thing is, the Space Plane looks kinda like the rocket you got Marvin riding on!

 

I'm just glad this thing went better than the military's 'autonomous vehicle' fiasco last month. I really had high hopes for that one!

[Jim at Gentex]

Hey there camdude,

 

I recently attended a 4&5 axis training session of yours and thought it was most excellent.

Keep up the good work!

 

If you remember, the company I work for is Gentex Corporation. (I'm one of the the lowly Homer Simpson-like carbon blobs from sector G14.)

We at Gentex had the distinct pleasure of designing and building the flight helmet used in the Space Plane flight, so we can honestly say that Mastercam helped get this thing off the ground in more ways than one!

 

Jim at Gentex

[Camdude®]

Jim,

congrats and thanks for the kind words. if it's not a propiatary thing i would love to see the model of the brain bucket that went into space. i love training the 4&5 axis stuff as it's the most fun to work with. as always ya need any help with anything give a holler.

doesn't this forum rock!!!

 

p.s. Sector G14 rules.

[Camdude®]

Mark,

coincidence, i think not, Burt Rutan knows a good design when he sees one. I think he and Marvin knocked heads on this one.

[Charles Davis]

I was fortunate enough to witness the Spaceship One flight in person yesterday. It was really awesome. There is an account of what I say under the post, "Burt is going to do it".

[Jim at Gentex]

Sorry Phil...we don't have the full-up model here in house. I think we only have bits and pieces. Actually, it's a rework of an older model helmet we used to make for NASA, so all they needed to do was tweak it a bit and send it on its merry way.

 

Yes, my company is really paranoid about its proprietary rights to many things b/c of the level of competition.

I would probably get my private parts brutally stomped upon if I disclosed any secret design materials! (Not to mention the fact that I would probably be selling shoes for a living at the local mall shortly thereafter instead of having my COOL CNC Programmer job.)

 

Have a great day!

 

Jim

[Mark Lovelace]

I hear the Space Plane was powered by a uranium T-38 explosive space modulator.

[gcode]

Mark, the engine was a hybrid running on rubber

and NO2, (nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas).

Guess we could use some NO2 on the

F/911 thread :-)

[Charles Davis]

Actually the engine was made by Space Dev, which is about a mile from my company.

 

It runs on rubber tires and laughing gas.

 

No kidding. It uses the same kind of rubber used for tires as the fuel and nitrous oxide as the oxidizer. This binary engine is safer since it can't just explode like a regular solid rocket engine. Both chemicals have to be present to burn.

 

I'll bet they have a far better safety record over time than the shuttle, which is an accident waiting to happen.

[Mark Lovelace]

Actually, I had already read about the solid rubber propellant. Burning rubber and nitrous oxide. Sounds like those So. Cal street racers have infiltrated the space race.

 

The comment about the uranium T-38 explosive space modulator was a little joke (though apparently lacking in the critical element of humor.) I was refering to the giant lazer Marvin the Martian was going to use to blow up the Earth ("It's blocking my view of Venus.")

 

BTW, Camdude, I used to have Marvin as a hood ornament on my truck.

[Camdude®]

Jim,

save your job, selling shoes at the is Al Bundy's turf

[gcode]

quote:

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The comment about the uranium T-38 explosive space modulator was a little joke (though apparently lacking in the critical element of humor.)

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Not your fault Mark, Its a well known fact that

conservatives don't understand humor

[Mark Lovelace]

There are plenty of liberals out there who don't have any sense of humor either. But you knew that already.