The LOBBER was a definite highlight, those of us on the chat were beginning to worry that you'd set up the camera in the wrong place...
Our LOHAN rocket ship team exits Spain with a bang
It's been a hell of a couple of weeks at the Special Project Bureau's mountaintop headquarters, as we took delivery of our Vulture 2 spaceplane, welcomed the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team to sunny Spain and then spent a frantic 10 days putting things together, blowing stuff up and rescuing lost playmonauts …
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Monday 23rd September 2013 18:39 GMT MrT
CofG...
...my rocketry knowledge might be shown wanting with this comment - doesn't the CG need to be further back from the centre of thrust? If so, then that wing configuration is ideal. Reminds me of the Beechcraft Starship.
Disclaimer: knowledge gleaned from a few hours of cocking about with the TopGear Reliant Shuttle simulator - it might be completely bass-ackwards ;-)
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Monday 23rd September 2013 18:12 GMT andreas koch
@ Charles E & Voland's right hand (& Lester) - Re: Design
Naa, no resemblance.
If there's any ancestry involved then it's more like the lovechild of a Rutan VariEze and a North American F-15.
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Tuesday 24th September 2013 09:19 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Cool Paint Job?
That would terrify the Falkland Islanders, given where the last V-bomber was used in anger. Way to go guys, develop a method of delivery of nuclear weapons which in reality poses more of a risk to your own side, and then when you finally use one of them, bomb your own airstrip.
(There is no HTML irony tag)
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Tuesday 24th September 2013 17:23 GMT VulcanV5
Lester's amigo
A huge debt of gratitude is owed to Lester's amigo for facilitating the ground crew's accommodations. I have no soddin' idea at all where in Spain everyone is,but it looks very nice. Warm. Sunny. Is it possible to get a translation of Lester's amigo's website amidst all this hi tech stuff? I would like to come and sit back against a sun-warmed dry stone wall and stare up at balloons whilst sipping chilled Rioja. Or be advised of medication that can achieve the same effect.