"The Skylon C1. " Topic
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Tango01  | 18 Aug 2013 9:06 p.m. PST |
"…The UK Government is investing £60.00 GBPm GBP ($92m USD) on the Skylon's revolutionary Sabre engine, to enable a full-scale prototype to be built – so maybe this special edition model isn't pie-in-the-sky. That political vote of confidence means that the designers now hope to see Sabre engines powering the Skylon spaceplane on operational flights by 2022, each ship carrying a 15-tonne payload into orbit. First test flights for the uncrewed vehicle are tentatively scheduled three years earlier, in 2019. As a passenger-carrying machine, a skip-glide flight across the top of the atmosphere could enable a London-Sydney journey in as little as four hours. The British-designed Skylon is the brainchild of engineer Alan Bond, reports Mat Irvine. Bond heads his own space business, Reaction Engines, and now it may not be too many years before the single-stage-to-orbit aerospaceplane soars into orbit. Until then we can dream on with this Herpa 1:250 scale model kit…"
From here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 18 Aug 2013 9:38 p.m. PST |
Makes me want to shout: "Thunderbirds are Go!" |
| Dogged | 19 Aug 2013 5:25 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 19 Aug 2013 10:36 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys!. Amicalement
Armand |
| StarfuryXL5 | 20 Aug 2013 3:16 p.m. PST |
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again. Oh, wait … Skylon. Never mind … |
| MaksimSmelchak | 01 Sep 2013 3:25 p.m. PST |
Look! It's HOTOL's pointy child! Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak. |
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