Re: Re: Multiple engines (was RE: Liquox)
Michael Wallis <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:44:29PM -0700, Pierce Nichols wrote:
> I see where you are going with that, but I don't think it would work in
> practice, unless you could throttle very far down, because it doesn't
> take a lot of torque to make a vehicle, especially a skinny one,
> dangerously unstable. Hold-down clamps and a big mass of sand seems the
> right way to go.
It's also yet another reason for not doing tall, skinny pencil-shaped
vehicles. Aside from being a bad shape for reentry they're a bad shape
for liftoff. 8-)
Michael
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