Archive for June 17th, 2003
Another X-Prize story
by Dave Wilson on Jun.17, 2003, under Uncategorized
Yahoo yesterday reported a story about a Hungarian company’s unsuccessful attempt to register as an X-Prize competitor. Gravity Control Technologies’ plan sounds fascinating but I am wondering how they managed to keep such a fundamentally important breakthrough to themselves? If they intend having a usable vehicle by 2012, one must assume that the underlying technology is pretty well developed by now? I hope I’m wrong but I see a bit of a credibility problem here.
Engineering Inspiration
by Dave Wilson on Jun.17, 2003, under Uncategorized
I have huge respect for Burt Rutan. His bid to win the X-Prize which is currently the talk of many newstand mags (Popular Science and Wired both have major articles this month) is just the latest in a long string of truly inspirational aircraft designs. Rutan’s engineering solutions are perfect examples of not being confined by convention – true “thinking out of the box” designs.
Some of the other competitors may have a longer pedigree as far as space launch systems are concerned by my money is on Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites.
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