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| Be not wise in thine own eyes  |
Where will this go without Paul Allen? Is there enough financing for a rocket launch without him? World’s biggest airplane takes flight for the first time ever “We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Pres. Select, Joe Biden “Let’s go, Brandon” Kelli Stavast, 2 Oct. 2021 | ||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
That has to be THE most UFO [unlikely flying object] I've ever seen. It looks like a serious aviation accident just waiting to happen. | |||
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That is some AWESOME looking, realistic CGI!!!  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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I was in Mojave to watch this thing go up. Crazy; SCALED took two mothballed UA 747-400's and MacGyver'd them into this unlikely, all composite bird. | |||
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What's the purpose of the conjoined twin construction? What's the advantage over single body plane? Q | |||
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The twin-hull/center-wing design allows centerline carry of the intended launch vehicle...  | |||
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That looks like a lot of force to exert on such a light design. It would seem like there would be a lot of stress on the center portion of the wing, pushing the two fuselages toward one another at the tail of the craft. . | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
Seems like the risk outweighs the benefit since SpaceX is already successfully launching and retrieving boosters. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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I'm guessing the reason they didn't similarly connect the horizontal stabilizer with a center span is for clearance of some of their larger launch vehicles. Also, the center wingspan is supposed to be "reinforced" (I would hope so).    | |||
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Interesting graphic.  ___________________________________________________________________________ "....imitate the action of the Tiger." | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Thanks Club. Interesting graphic indeed. Showing the size compared to a C-5 and a Saturn V really shows the size of that beast. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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To isolate families traveling with young children? . “Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . .” – Napoleon Bonaparte http://poundsstudio.com/ | |||
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Ok launch something! “So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.” | |||
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Does anybody know by what measure it's the largest? Seems like it's only the largest wingspan. | |||
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Yes, wingspan. | |||
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It's got a few parts from the 747 (engines, flight deck instrumentation, etc), but that's about it. The rest is all-new, clean-sheet design. If only the industry could move with the speed and innovation that Rutan and Scaled Composites has done. | |||
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I always thought that the design looked shaky. “Makers of the world's largest plane may be about to stop operations after completing just a single test flight. Sources close to Stratolaunch say the company's assets were being shopped to potential buyers by parent firm Vulcan. This includes a portfolio of launch vehicles including the world's largest airplane by wingspan to launch satellites and eventually humans into space. Stratolaunch's carrier plane has with a 383feet (117-meter) wingspan - the size of a football field - and is powered by six engines. The firm was founded in 2011 by late billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who died last year after a battle with cancer. He was 65 years old…” https://mol.im/a/7102727 Serious about crackers | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Looks fragile and we'll see parts of one scattered across the ground before too long. | |||
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