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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry
  3. From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
  4. Subject: Re: DCX tech. info?
  5. Message-ID: <C0EFyn.D9D@zoo.toronto.edu>
  6. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:06:21 GMT
  7. References: <ewright.726253311@convex.convex.com> <1icfsjINNlet@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
  8. Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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  11. In article <1icfsjINNlet@rave.larc.nasa.gov> S.D.Derry@LaRC.NASA.Gov writes:
  12. >How can you have dynamic pressure when you're hovering???
  13.  
  14. "Hover" is being used loosely here; the later tests will involve noticeable
  15. (although subsonic) velocities.
  16.  
  17. >Also, will these flights be pre-programmed onboard, or will they be 
  18. >controlled from the ground?
  19.  
  20. As I recall, they're preprogrammed with the ability to override from
  21. the ground.
  22. -- 
  23. "God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
  24.        -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
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