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Canadian Arrow Completes Drop Test
hpulley writes "The Canadian press is reporting that X-Prize entrant the Canadian Arrow made its first successful crew compartment drop test on Saturday. It is essentially a modern version of the German V2 rocket. This test was just a drop of the crew compartment to test the parachutes. Next comes a launch abort test to see if the crew can be safely sent away from the vehicle. No word yet on when they might launch the consecutive flights in two-week turnaround for the prize. Fellow Canadian entrant the da Vinci Project will try to launch October 2nd. In the fall, venerable model company Estes Rockets will have a new model of the Canadian Arrow along with models of other entrants like the Rubicon." Oddly enough, I saw the crew compartment being driven around in Toronto on Saturday morning (towed behind a white pickup truck), but I didn't know what they were up to.
It is essentially a modern version of the German V2 rocket.
Looks like London may not be safe yet. Someone call Tony Blair!
By the way, I have German ancestry (first generation American). Don't get all riled up.
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Unfortuneately no. This technology is designed to return the occupants SAFELY.
I thought arrows are supposed to be launched from a bow. I demand a refund! This arrow doesn't launch from a bow, and part of it breaks off and floats down... 0.o
Interesting name, perhaps a bit nostalgic?
Are you sure they're Candian? The entire website is in Feet/Miles/Inches! Not a meter in sight!
;-)
I dunno. Sounds like we have a couple of american defectors doing the work up there... Time to bring those traiters back.
-Adam
A manned cruise missile.
Well, there ought to be a first time for everything.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
First production aeroplane to sustain Mach 3 without afterburners.
Could fly in space.
Had a Hoser Flight Operator Detector to ensure it was not being flown by the enemy.
Could compose iambic verse in flight.
Was used by the University of Toronto's physics department to empirically test both Einstein's Special and General Theories of Relativity.
Could ratiocinate its own funding to the body politic.
Beautiful.
...roll on, Red Green.
But you forgot the bit where we had to rate it in moosepower because horsepower isn't big enough.
As a proud Canadian citizen I am truly embarassed by the Canadian Arrow. It most certainly does not live up to the Avro Arrow, which was ingenious and revolutionary in every sense of the words.
Multi-stage space vehicles are so 1970s! Come on guys! Let's see some true innovation coming from Canada. Maybe, the Canada Super Arm, which would simply pick people up and put them directly into orbit. Or how about, the Canadian Slap Shot Ship, a large black single stage saucer like device launched via contact with a huge wood paddle.
Even I can think of better plans than the Canadian Arrow. Pffft.
>In the fall, venerable model company Estes Rockets will have...
When I read that, for a second my mind finished the sentence as, "...Estes Rockets will have its own X-prize entrant!"
Ah yes, I can just see it. Say, 20 stages, each with a cluster of 400 D12-0 engines. Better reinforce those balsa fins with some epoxy fillets, though. I don't think Elmer's Wood Glue is rated for supersonic applications.
"Oddly enough, I saw the crew compartment being driven around in Toronto on Saturday morning (towed behind a white pickup truck)"
Those were the low velocity sex tests. Watch out for the crew compartment being sent over the Niagara Falls for the more advanced Sex in Space tests.
You're not buying this, are you? *poot*!
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