Please disprove this conclusive evidence of a round earth.

http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm


Disprove this. I dare you to try.

Scaled Composites is a government contractror.  Need I say more?

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Scaled Composites is a government contractror.  Need I say more?

Yes.

Scaled Composites is a government contractror.  Need I say more?

Space Ship One is a fabrication by the government in response to lingering doubts of its space program. The idea was to show that "any joe" could reach space. In reality the "Space Ship" is nothing more than a high altitude aeroplane like the Space Shuttle.

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Space Ship One is a fabrication by the government in response to lingering doubts of its space program. The idea was to show that "any joe" could reach space. In reality the "Space Ship" is nothing more than a high altitude aeroplane like the Space Shuttle.

WTF you gay FE people. If you're going to make crazy and wrong theories, then at least spell correctly! AEROPLANE = NOTHING
AIRPLANE = THINGY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

It's a government contractror!  You for some reason keep ignoring THAT fact.

For the billionth time, your entire theory rests on that retarded conspiracy. Without it you don't have anything.

I assure you in entire honesty that I have never seen those vehicles enter space, and I doubt you have either.

~D-Draw

It's a government contractror!  You for some reason keep ignoring THAT fact.

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For the billionth time, your entire theory rests on that retarded conspiracy. Without it you don't have anything.

Rather, the conspiracy hypothesis rests on the entire theory.

It's a government contractror!  You for some reason keep ignoring THAT fact.

It's a government contractror!  You for some reason keep ignoring THAT fact.

The ARES, Scaled Model 151, was designed initially in response to a U.S. Army request for a Low Cost Battlefield Attack Aircraft (LCBAA). A design study was performed by Rutan Aircraft Factory in 1981 for such an aircraft. The original LCBAA design was for a pusher turboprop aircraft, of generally the same aerodynamic configuration you see here. It also was designed around a 30mm chain gun. Its mission goals were low-altitude, close air support, with long endurance, and with adequate field performance to operate from roads. Its structure and systems were simple enough to be maintained and repaired in the field.

Scaled followed up with the concept, and ultimately decided to build a demonstrator aircraft with internal funds. By the time construction started in 1986, the design had evolved to the current configuration: a single Pratt and Whitney Canada JT15D-5 turbofan engine (same as in the Beechjet / T-1A Jayhawk), and a GAU-12/U 25mm gatling gun.

The ARES first flew on February 19, 1990, with Scaled test pilot Doug Shane at the controls. Since that first flight, the ARES has flown more than 250 hours, and demonstrated all of its design performance and handling qualities goals, including departure-free handling at full aft stick. During November of 1991, under a contract from the U.S. Air Force, initial ground and flight (air-air and air-ground) tests of the GAU-12/U gun system installed in ARES were performed, with outstanding results.

In 1989 Scaled Composites was approached by the Northrop Corporation for the structural design and fabrication of a Radar Cross Section (RCS) model of the B-2 aircraft. There was considerable concern over making a large enough RCS model to ensure accurate full scale fidelity while trying to remain within the weight and gust load limits of the measuring facility. A 4/10 scale model (with a resulting wingspan of about 70 ft) was believed to be the optimum size for accurate measurement. The model would have to be disassembled into sections for crating and shipment from the fabrication facility to the test site, and would have to be easily reassembled on site while maintaining the step and gap tolerances required for testing. The model would also require representative engine inlets and outlets and top and bottom rotator assemblies.

Scaled also designed, developed, and tested all Raptor flight controls, including autopilot, autonomous navigation, and emergency recovery systems.

The first flight of the Raptor occurred April 27, 1993, just ten months after contract award. Funds expended at this point were only about $800,000. During its flight tests, the Raptor verified its low-altitude performance, structural integrity, and control system operations.

In 1995, the Raptor program was transferred to NASA under the Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology program as a flying testbed for technologies applicable to future high altitude UAVs (www.erast.com).

In 1991 Scaled Composites was selected by McDonnell Douglas Aerospace for the SDIO Single Stage to Orbit demonstrator program. MDA proposed a lightweight 1/3 scale proof of concept (POC) demonstrator vehicle to validate the rocket powered vertical take off and landing concept.
Scaled was tasked with building the structural aeroshell and aerodynamic control surfaces. The DC-X aeroshell has a height of 62 feet and a maximum width of 15 feet at the base. Four large hydraulically-actuated flap sections are incorporated into the aeroshell for aerodynamic control during reentry and landing. A removable nose cone houses the emergency parachute recovery system. Also incorporated into the aeroshell was a "finger ring" used to restrain and stabilize the fuel tanks during temperature induced expansion and contraction cycles. The retractable landing gear are mounted to the aeroshell structure and all landing gear loads are reacted through the aeroshell. This structural philosophy would benefit the overall vehicle both in weight and complexity. Scaled employed low cost tooling methods for fabrication of the DC-X structure. A 1/4 fuselage section male plug was fabricated from the loft lines supplied by MDA. A single female tool was fabricated from the male plug, and the four graphite/epoxy sandwich panel sections were fabricated in the female tool. The sections were installed in an assembly fixture and bonded together using in-place graphite/epoxy laminates. The landing gear receptacles, flap mechanisms and servos were then added. The materials and structural design of the sandwich panel proved to be capable of maintaining structural integrity under the extreme conditions of the operating environment.

Last fall under a competitive procurement program among jet engine companies, NASA selected Williams International to join NASA in a $100 million cooperative effort...Williams also revealed today it contracted with Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites organization to start with the Williams preliminary design, to conduct the V-JET II" detailed design and analysis, and to manufacture the prototype "V-JET II" (that will fly in to the Oshkosh show).

Space Ship One is a fabrication by the government in response to lingering doubts of its space program. The idea was to show that "any joe" could reach space. In reality the "Space Ship" is nothing more than a high altitude aeroplane like the Space Shuttle.

Quote from: "Kwaun Se"

Quote from: "Tom Bishop"

Space Ship One is a fabrication by the government in response to lingering doubts of its space program. The idea was to show that "any joe" could reach space. In reality the "Space Ship" is nothing more than a high altitude aeroplane like the Space Shuttle.

WTF you gay FE people. If you're going to make crazy and wrong theories, then at least spell correctly! AEROPLANE = NOTHING
AIRPLANE = THINGY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

Aeroplane is actually the original and proper word. "Airplane" is improper hoodlum slang.

Does the non-response mean that you submit to my argument?

Not true. The word is "aeroplane" in Commonwealth countries. English dictionaries do not revert to the spelling airplane necessarily.