Manned Spaceflight - the Next 30 Years

[Eric Mc]

I agree. I think the Sabre is a great concept. I've chatted to Bond and his team at Farnborough a couple of times. They know what they are doing. They just need more money.

[Eric Mc]

We don't have to hang around waiting for a "Mr Fusion"unit then ?

[Eric Mc]

Toaster said:

Then you cannot be aware of the BAE investment (Money and expertise) http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_02nov2015_re...

What makes you think I wasn't aware? That was all over the news a couple of weeks ago. They still need more money.

[Eric Mc]

For Christ's sake stop trying to pick me up on everything I say. You obviously have a bee in your bonnett about something.

Is your hobby trying to trip me up at every opportunity? If it is, I would suggest that you find something more productive to do with your time rather than sniping and bhing at me from the wings. You are effectively ruining this thread and I have a good mind to ask the mods to close it purely because of your behaviour.

Which is a real pity because other posters behave in a much more mannerly and constructive fashion.

[Eric Mc]

My last chat with them was a few airshows ago (probably 2004 or 2006) and they were being very cagey about how their engines were able to transition from jet to rocket. At that time they were reluctant to reveal too much because it has since been disclosed by Bond that they ran into Official Secrets Act problems following their original British Aerospace involvement in HOTOL.

There is a very good documentary on Skylon on youtube.