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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:46:18 GMT
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- In <1992Dec15.202935.10304@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst) writes:
-
- > I know about the scramjet test article flown on an X-15, but
- >I'd never heard of a serious attempt to propel an X-15 with
- >scramjets. I've read a fair amount of the NASA papers from '67
- >forward on scramjet research, and believe me, they had (have) a ways
- >to go before they could actually propel something.
-
- Well, maybe you should try reading *all* the papers. They were
- far enough along for the project to appear in a Congressional
- budget request.
-
- >The diagnostics were crude in the extreme, and the computational models
- >were in their infancy.
-
- Yeah, but they weren't afraid to take risks and build hardware.
-
-
- > In short, it is not a matter of just "cojones". That attitude will
- >get you nothing but dead planes, programs, and pilots. According to
- >Yeager, one of the reasons he was successful as a test pilot was his
- >aptitude for understanding the hardware and why and what it was
- >doing.
-
- The key word there is "hardware." We don't run many development
- programs today. We run research programs instead. Very few of
- them ever produce hardware. The NASP program is a perfect example.
- There has been a little bit of component testing, but we're years
- away from having a flight article, if it is ever built. Instead,
- we've spent gigabucks on computer models and still have no idea
- if they're correct because, despite what the simulation advocates
- like to say, you cannot repeal the GIGO Law.
-
-
- >Brad Whitehurst | Aerospace Research Lab
- >rbw3q@Virginia.EDU | We like it hot...and fast.
-
- So, what hot, fast things have you built this week?
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