Since they're not reaching orbital velocities, they probably don't see that high of skin heating. I know they have heat shielding so it obviously heats up some but other high speed (mach 3+ vehicles that have had skin heating issues) have done with regular landing gear. I'd say it's unlikely that the issue is related…

While I don't have first hand experience with it, there is a product very similar to this that's been used in the auto industry for quite a while. It's a pressure sensitive film that gets installed on cylinder heads or other sealing surfaces used to evaluate the quality of the seal.

Came here to post that.

I poked around on Virgin Galactic's website a bit but didn't see it. When are they going to start commercial flights?

Interesting that you're using undersea exploration as a comparison because I've always thought that going to space is less taxing on equipment than going under the ocean.

It depends on what you're going to consider "actual space travel" since we're going down the semantic rabbit hole. I would rather make the distinction between going into orbit and merely going to space. As the What If article whose pictures I used states "getting to space is easy, staying there is hard."

As cool as it would be to ride on SpaceShipTwo, going to space in it is a bit anti-climactic since the above is basically all you do.

#COTD

As long as you don't suggest using tons (tonnes) as a unit of measure, I will support dual units.

I think this illustrates the importance of learning how to fall. As dumb as it sounds, the guys that have the huge crashes all the time know how to fall/land so they don't get hurt more seriously. Also, looking closely, it looks like he lands on the landing ramp which would give a considerably softer landing than…

Motorcycle forumssay that the motorcyclist walked away from the failed trick okay. That dude strong.

Gotcha. It must have just been a prototype because they talked about breaking one of the prop blades during a test flight. I believe a piece of ice came off the main wing and damaged the blade. The engineer said it looked like a broom that was all frayed.

When I worked at Beech I spoke with some of the guys that had been there a long time and actually worked on the Starship. The general consensus was that it was too much too fast. Glass cockpit, carbon composite, forward canards (that are movable), 5 blade composite pusher props, all in the early 80s. Each could have…

2. I hear you can get super powers from that.

I thought for sure this was going to be an Ashley Feinberg article when I read the Facebook post. Sorry Casey.

At that price point, yeah, wagon. And if you've really got enough stuff to warrant the size, minivan. I'll see you in Jalop jail Tom.

A better view is to watch the drive shaft and the exhaust pipe/muffler in the side view slow mo. You can clearly see the driveshaft pitch up first then break off the end of the transmission tail housing as the (presumably) engine and transmission are forced down.

Like every other Roush kit. They're not doing anything new, just a new car to do it with. They even have the fake hood scoop again.

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