My mentions: mansplaining the F-35, which is a program I worked on.
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hey wanna do basically the same thing but for unusually wide control surfaces on the first stage of a launch vehicle
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The challenge is only in the transonic regime. You're just gonna use power to get past that.
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this is true but the vehicle is going to have a very limited inclination range unless it maneuvers early
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i expect the combination of srb acceleration and relatively severe vectoring is going to require some clever wing design
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the big challenge is fighting the internal stresses if you're using aero maneuvering. Basically fighting against the engine.
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i'm fairly confident the vehicle itself can withstand the stress, a scramjet does not have many points of shearing failure
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the stage linkage is a little more concerning tho
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The weird stuff comes when you get things e.g. skin stress on the fuse, etc. A lot depends on materials. Composites can come apart.
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That's one of the best sentences I've read all year! I'm positively drooling over its perfect geekiness!
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does... does the above mean "unintended disassembly prevention"? I'm googling as fast as I can here :)
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@EmilyGorcenski made sure that what happened to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge didn't happen to (very!) expensive planespic.twitter.com/1TdStf2NiM -
saw test pilots pushing a T-tail plane in icing conditions; not the same, but "limit cycle osc." reminded me of that.
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you are way cooler than i am!
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yeah... sure... you know big words. Umm... I got nuthin.
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