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Tag Archives: cruise
Long Endurance UAV Design
Karoliina has some thoughts on plane design, looking at High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) UAV:s as inspiration for high L/D craft, to ultimately cruise at fast speed with little power. I disagree somewhat, and I’m sketching out why, below. Probably … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Models, Motivation, Navelgazing, Science Links, Transportation
Tagged Aircraft, Conceptual Design, cruise, HALE, Loiter, UAV
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Optimum Rocket Cruise
With some caveats. 🙂 Let’s assume a rocket is launched, and accelerates to constant speed v_c. Then it stays cruising at this speed and at a constant altitude. Landing is disregarded. The cruise We must modify the rocket equation slightly … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Humor, Motivation, RLV:s, Science Links, Spacecraft, Suborbital, Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged cruise, hypersonic, hypersonic cruise, rocket
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Hypersonic Cruise for the V Prize
The Virginia Spaceport at Wallops (east coast of USA, south from New York) advocates want to create a prize to foster use for the spaceport, and have floated an idea of a “one hour to Europe” style prize, the V … Continue reading
Posted in Models, RLV:s, Uncategorized
Tagged cruise, hypersonic, Slug, transatlantic, v prize, virginia, wallops, X-24C
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