This craft doesn't really fly 'downrange' very far as an orbital flight would, the only 'downrange' stages are when It's attached to their carrier plane and when It's pulling up.
If the worst was to happen (Im not sure if their rocket gimballs) and the craft went off course, the chances are that the out-of-envelope stresses would do a better job of self-destruction than any range safety officer.
Question: Does anyone know (I've searched scaled.com) whether the rocket nozzle is gimballed or whether they use dynamic control followed by 'balance'?
The only info on the motor control states the 2 button operation 1) Arm 2) Fire:)
Just found an old article from The Times magazine (dead tree version) on Antarctic expedition.
Apparently there are actually specialised fuel operators servicing the Antarctic and in 2002, the fuel was being delivered at $11/gallon. (Only 2x the UK forecourt price.)
However, I've just been reading in serveral places on the web that the fuel price has tripled since last year, placing it at $33/gallon!
I would suggest that a reasonable 'idiot' tax would be $100(US) per gallon and he might think twice about trying again.
If it was up to me, I'd say, you pay $3000/gallon and you can fly your plane home. If not, we'll take it apart and ship it back to you for $3000 all-in before the end of the season.
It may also be the case that they dont have excess fuel to sell.
Just found an old article from The Times magazine (dead tree version) on Antarctic expedition.
Apparently there are actually specialised fuel operators servicing the Antarctic and in 2002, the fuel was being delivered at $11/gallon. (Only 2x the UK forecourt price.)
However, I've just been reading in serveral places on the web that the fuel price has tripled since last year, placing it at $33/gallon!
I would suggest that a reasonable 'idiot' tax would be $100(US) per gallon and he might think twice about trying again.
It may also be the case that they dont have excess fuel to sell.
At a guess, its unlikely that his Vans is set uf for MoGAS. The engine will be normally-aspirated and as such, without any hot-jackets for the fuel lines etc, MoGAS would probably be a big risk in cold conditions.
He may, of course have modified his aircraft but theres a limit to how much extra weight you can attach.
The availablity of this service may have serious consequences for the UK wardriver community.
I can see now swathes of Wardrivers being killed at the wheel while driving in excess of 110mph trying to maintain the "perfect signal" they just aquired.
Don't get me wrong, I love concept designs but this one is *really* impractical.
I mean, it only takes a minute of looking at its configuration with the heavy gyroscope package in the centre of the wheel to realise that changing a tyre is going to be monumentally difficult.
My friend had a few high bandwidth transfers operating from the states last night (circa 150Mbps total)
He lost one and two others dropped to around 50Mbps for a few hours so there was a noticable drop, presumably while the major routers sorted themselves out.
Whats even more amazing is that they can get an accurate reading of a break in the fibre from thousands of miles away and know exactly where they need to pull it up.
Always wondered how they did this. You couldn't run a copper with it to get the resistance as that would go open circuit with a break.
Have they got some sort of clever trick where they time a reflection from a broken face of the fibre?
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Good grief - I've got boxen sitting all over round here - I've got a few SuSE desktops and several Mandrake servers (interesting problem in itself).
Now I downloaded Fedora Core 1 the other day with the intention of trying it out on one of our desktop systems.
Now another core is sceduled for April!
I can't keep up with this - This must be my penance for all those times I complained when I was an MSCE that the updates were too few and far between.
The British intel on weapons was basically, we knew what we sold to them and had an idea what America had sold to them.
:)...... go figure.
As for everything else, the British seem to believe that it was American intel that was flawed
This craft doesn't really fly 'downrange' very far as an orbital flight would, the only 'downrange' stages are when It's attached to their carrier plane and when It's pulling up.
:)
If the worst was to happen (Im not sure if their rocket gimballs) and the craft went off course, the chances are that the out-of-envelope stresses would do a better job of self-destruction than any range safety officer.
Question: Does anyone know (I've searched scaled.com) whether the rocket nozzle is gimballed or whether they use dynamic control followed by 'balance'?
The only info on the motor control states the 2 button operation 1) Arm 2) Fire
There's less than 45 minutes seperating them.
:)
Not to Slashdot Editors: Check whats on the front page - Duh!
Its understandable if the prior story was day ago but this?
Just found an old article from The Times magazine (dead tree version) on Antarctic expedition.
Apparently there are actually specialised fuel operators servicing the Antarctic and in 2002, the fuel was being delivered at $11/gallon. (Only 2x the UK forecourt price.)
However, I've just been reading in serveral places on the web that the fuel price has tripled since last year, placing it at $33/gallon!
I would suggest that a reasonable 'idiot' tax would be $100(US) per gallon and he might think twice about trying again.
If it was up to me, I'd say, you pay $3000/gallon and you can fly your plane home. If not, we'll take it apart and ship it back to you for $3000 all-in before the end of the season.
It may also be the case that they dont have excess fuel to sell.
Just found an old article from The Times magazine (dead tree version) on Antarctic expedition.
Apparently there are actually specialised fuel operators servicing the Antarctic and in 2002, the fuel was being delivered at $11/gallon. (Only 2x the UK forecourt price.)
However, I've just been reading in serveral places on the web that the fuel price has tripled since last year, placing it at $33/gallon!
I would suggest that a reasonable 'idiot' tax would be $100(US) per gallon and he might think twice about trying again.
It may also be the case that they dont have excess fuel to sell.
At a guess, its unlikely that his Vans is set uf for MoGAS. The engine will be normally-aspirated and as such, without any hot-jackets for the fuel lines etc, MoGAS would probably be a big risk in cold conditions.
He may, of course have modified his aircraft but theres a limit to how much extra weight you can attach.
Surely you mean "Please brace yourself for another meaningless SCO Press Release?"
Has someone been stealing the IQ round here?
As said before this guy appears *not* to be a Dev on the Xouvert project.
Have a read through some of his previous posts on other topics.
Thanks.
As opposed to the comments further up, this one really is in bad taste and is somewhat obscene.
You see the difference?
This news may have been know early in the day as SCOX usually gets reasonable trading.
It could be that the news caused a reduction in buying while current stockholders work out their next move.
The availablity of this service may have serious consequences for the UK wardriver community.
I can see now swathes of Wardrivers being killed at the wheel while driving in excess of 110mph trying to maintain the "perfect signal" they just aquired.
Oh the dark times ahead....
Don't get me wrong, I love concept designs but this one is *really* impractical.
I mean, it only takes a minute of looking at its configuration with the heavy gyroscope package in the centre of the wheel to realise that changing a tyre is going to be monumentally difficult.
Really?
I don't get it.
Aha! Thankyou!
Well, I was working on the principal that Europe isn't the embodyment of civilisation either ;)
My friend had a few high bandwidth transfers operating from the states last night (circa 150Mbps total)
He lost one and two others dropped to around 50Mbps for a few hours so there was a noticable drop, presumably while the major routers sorted themselves out.
Are you in some way attempting to imply that America is the embodyment of civilisation?
Are you being ironic??
Whats even more amazing is that they can get an accurate reading of a break in the fibre from thousands of miles away and know exactly where they need to pull it up.
Always wondered how they did this. You couldn't run a copper with it to get the resistance as that would go open circuit with a break.
Have they got some sort of clever trick where they time a reflection from a broken face of the fibre?
It's got me stumped.
You know this kind of fibre isn't cheap don't you? :)
While there was a bit of a routing problem on Tuesday, we were doing fine without stateside connectivity.
;)
Contrary to popular belief, a section of "internet" severed from the states does not cease to function.
In fact it may even function better
This isn't one company tho, according to the article it is owned/operated by a consortium of companies.
Please re-read my comment carefully.