Heads up, Skylon may fly!
Discussion
Einion Yrth said:
1m Euros won't go far.
It all helps. Assuming they get good results then perhaps more funds will follow.This is exactly the sort of project that I think the government should fund, maybe we should write to the Tories and suggest it as the sort of things Britain used to do, and should do again.
yes it will all help towards the end result but when you consider a used 737 is $53million it puts it all into perspective.
The money is more likely an award for engineering research rather than any meaningful step towards the future of Skylon.
I know I sound the pessimist but in this day and age unless a boeing, lockheed or BAE systems gets involved in these projects in a big way they just won't get anywhere, which is a real shame.
The money is more likely an award for engineering research rather than any meaningful step towards the future of Skylon.
I know I sound the pessimist but in this day and age unless a boeing, lockheed or BAE systems gets involved in these projects in a big way they just won't get anywhere, which is a real shame.
We had this with HOTOL too... a earth based satellite delivery system that doesn't need rockets....
I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
215cu said:
We had this with HOTOL too... a earth based satellite delivery system that doesn't need rockets....
I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
Never mind 5 hours, this beast could do it in less than 2! (not knowing exactly how long it takes to get sub-orbital and back)I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
Eric Mc said:
Bond designd HOTOL too.
Skylon is the latest reincarantion of the HOTOL project.
I do remember, it's a shame the RB545 is classed as 'Top Secret', I imagine if the government backed this, it could be done. Love the website, it's got a touch of 'Thunderbirds' about it. Skylon is the latest reincarantion of the HOTOL project.
There are many mistakes made by the British Government in our approach to rocketry and aviation, none more so than Blue Streak/Black Arrow which for the time were advanced rockets developed on little more than change from behind the sofa.
Edited by 215cu on Friday 20th February 09:00
Marc W said:
Einion Yrth said:
1m Euros won't go far.
It does say further on in the story that it's part of a total investment of 6 million.215cu said:
We had this with HOTOL too... a earth based satellite delivery system that doesn't need rockets....
I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
How do you (or anybody) know that the idea for HOTOL wasn't discarded because, after much research, it SIMPLY DIDN'T WORK - for whatever reason albeit financial or technological.I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
Ideas are great but if further investigation concludes that there is no merit in investing in the venture for whatever reason then it should die.
People/Corporations more clever than us with serious money wouldn't miss an opportunity to invest in something as innovative as these types of projects unless they simply weren't 'runners' in the real world.
im said:
215cu said:
We had this with HOTOL too... a earth based satellite delivery system that doesn't need rockets....
I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
How do you (or anybody) know that the idea for HOTOL wasn't discarded because, after much research, it SIMPLY DIDN'T WORK - for whatever reason albeit financial or technological.I'm utterly amazed by British inventiveness and completely despair at the lack of investment. Estimated to have a £7bn development cost and we spent how many billions on ID Cards?
These are precisely the kind of industry killers we should be building in the UK.
Imagine these buggers launching satellites for tens of millions a pop making rockets obsolete. Versions that can bring proper space tourism. Delivering astronauts to space station.
Looking at LAPCAT2 - hypersonic travel. London to Sydney in five hours!!!!
Ideas are great but if further investigation concludes that there is no merit in investing in the venture for whatever reason then it should die.
People/Corporations more clever than us with serious money wouldn't miss an opportunity to invest in something as innovative as these types of projects unless they simply weren't 'runners' in the real world.
Article said:
At high speeds, this requires Sabre cope with 1,000 degree gasses entering its intake. These need to be cooled prior to being compressed and burnt with the hydrogen.
Reaction Engines' breakthrough is a remarkable heat exchanger pre-cooler.
Arrays of extremely fine piping plunge the hot intake gases to minus 130C in just 100th of a second.
2 words spring to mind - bird strike.Reaction Engines' breakthrough is a remarkable heat exchanger pre-cooler.
Arrays of extremely fine piping plunge the hot intake gases to minus 130C in just 100th of a second.
Best of luck...
I so want this this project to succeed.
A real, working, British space-plane. Welcome to the future.
It's the stuff of boys own comics. The world would be a finer place if Skylon worked. There's also a chance with a real, working, cheap to launch space-plane we might actually succeed in building stuff in orbit that could get to interplanetary destinations.
We already know how to build atomic rockets - they didn't build 'em because of the fall out. Imagine one assembled in space.
A real, working, British space-plane. Welcome to the future.
It's the stuff of boys own comics. The world would be a finer place if Skylon worked. There's also a chance with a real, working, cheap to launch space-plane we might actually succeed in building stuff in orbit that could get to interplanetary destinations.
We already know how to build atomic rockets - they didn't build 'em because of the fall out. Imagine one assembled in space.
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