🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan18.212347.15566@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, jagnow@al.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Jagnow) writes:
> In article <1jc367INNs06@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ak336@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John  
> Dill) writes:
>> 
>>  LAX to JFK in 20 minutes?  Altitudes of 200,000+ at speeds over
>> mach 8.....200,000-300,000 lbs. gtw external combustion (methane)
>>    Tell us more!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Question: If this technology is available, why is NASA still spending money to  
> develop a 'Aero-Space Plane' ?
> It would seem to be significant that there are no more millitary shuttle  
> missions scheduled. (Does Aurora have orbital capabilities?)
> It would also seem that Aurora became operational sometime before the SR-71 was  
> retired.   
> Perhaps NASA has been passed by in air/space technology. It would seem that a  
> re-thinking of funding priorities is in order. 

  I'm sure NASA doesn't leak out information just like the military doesn't.  
I do know that the NASP project was for a vehicle (not necessarly military)
that was capable of speeds between mach 16 and 26.  The NASP project is 
currently having funding problems.  Our work on high speed flight simulation
has been curtailed to only a small amount of our overall support and rumor 
has it that the vehicle is being redesigned to a smaller configuration.  
Flight characteristics are interesting.  California to Florida in 35 minutes.
Now that would make a gulf weekend fishing trip doable.  David-- 

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David B. Snyder                     Logicon Technical Services Inc.
dsnyder@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil   Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
513-255-7557                        Dayton, Ohio USA
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It is said that GOD doesn't subtract from ones' time on earth, those
hours spent flying.
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1946 Cessna 140 N76234 "The lady in waiting" Owner/Operator
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