Posted by
Dave Walsh-4 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Sky-1-tp1500661p1500734.html
At 11:20 PM 5/16/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Thank you very much again for your professional comment, Dave.
Always glad to be of service!
> > Marc is our resident rocket expert, so howzabout we defer to his
>advice?
>
>Yes, I agree with you, so Marc please.
Yeah, Marc, whaddaya waiting for? Put all that SeaLaunch expertise to
work! ;-)
> > Or a scramjet! The SR-71 doesn't have rocket engines, and it flies
>at 80,000 feet plus!
>
>Yes, indeed.
>If only a Sky 1 had an exhaust at the end of its fuselage, a scramjet
>could be an ideal engine, I suppose.
>The air could be compressed by the underside of the forward body just
>before it would be taken into the trapezoid intake.
>And if my memory serves me right, a scramjet does not need turbines,
>doesn't it?
>The angled wings would make a Sky 1 supersonic waverider just like
>the XB-70 Valkyrie.
Quite possibly! But since the thing doesn't have a workable exhaust,
... 8-\
> >> Regarding the nose intake, I would like to consider it is NOT an
>intake, but a window for a raser distance measure and reconnaissance.
> > Then why make it flat, never mind concave? It's still a major drag
>(pun intended), and would limit the airspeed big time!
>
>I wonder a small flat inclined window makes such a major air
>resistance.
>For example, the Northrop RF-5 had a flat window at the tip of its
>nose, and some variant of SEPECAT Jagur also had such windows
It's not just a matter of the "window" being flat, it's also a matter
of area! I have a 1/72 scale model of SkyDiver (Diver still being under
construction), and if the dimensions are supposed to be accurate, the
"intake/sensor window" would be about 2 1/2 feet (76 cm) vertically and 3
1/2 feet (106 cm) across! That's almost as big as the crappy bay window in
my new house, and way larger than any recon/sensor aperture needs to be! In
fact it would have to be extremely thick to resist the air pressure exerted
on it from high speed winds on it from the primary angle of attack!
>Anyway, the Messerschmitt Me163B Komet also reminds me of the Sky 1.
>Their bodies are both thick and short, and they have same wing-
>arrangement, that is, two wings along with one vertical tail unit.
Yeah, just as long as they don't blow up on landing like the Komets!
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines!"
Dave Walsh
Harlington-Straker Sound Productions
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