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[Notebook]

Re. the Fluyt and D1 version, some old info is on their website, like to see the new stuff of course:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/fluyt.html

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_june10.html

Some news I missed, might be interesting:
http://www.aau.ac.uk/news280910.htm


Looking forward to the scale model, might get it for Xmas...

Edit:
Peculiar statement at the end of above?

Regulations relating to international arms trafficking will need to be dealt with when negotiating contracts with other nations

N.

http://www.aau.ac.uk/news280910.htm

 

[tblaxland]

Peculiar statement at the end of above?

"Launch vehicles" are on the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Munitions_List"]United States Munitions List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame].

 

[Notebook]

Well, thats a bit of a generous catch-all. Maybe the government should stick a RAF roundell on it, and call it Typhoon II.

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[Notebook]

September News

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_sept10.html

 

[hribek]

Well, since the stuff appears to be copyrighted, I have E-mailed the IAF to make extra sure it's OK to copy it for non-commercial/educational purposes. I neither want nor need any trouble. I talked about it with Mr. Hempsell at the exhibition, he recommended me to ask the IAF. So I got to sending the inquiry just today. I had and still have some catching up to do in school. Couldn't have split myself in two during the last week.

Worst case - you're stuck with the abstracts and will have to steal whatever else. Best case - you'll get to see the papers, presentations, and updates.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Discovery News: "Airplanes in Space"?

An article about Skylon/Reaction Engines.

 

[Notebook]

Discovery News: "Airplanes in Space"?

An article about Skylon/Reaction Engines.

"These are not people who started this last week," Parker told Discovery News. "They've been gnawing away at the problem for 20 years now. These are serious engineers."

Well, why not?

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[hribek]

I received no response from the IAF, I'll send a request to Reaction Engines tomorrow. The neat thing is that the DVD has been updated, so in theory you might be able to see the presentations in addition to the papers. They sure do look nice.

What I didn't mention earlier, I was asking (at the congress) about how the artwork is done and so, with the intention of getting something close to accurate meshes or mesh-convertible 3D models right from the source. That might come in handy for the Orbiter addon I plan to make.

 

[hribek]

Alright. Turns out REL don't mind at all, it's just that the IAF reserves first publication rights for some papers they select for Acta Astronautica. The funny thing is that with a bit of ingenuity, you can easily Google your way to this URL:

http://www.iafastro.net/download/congress/IAC-10/DVD/full/

Then click on "List Companies" -> "R" -> "Reaction Engines Ltd."

And presto! You can see the stuff without me taking a risk of being sued for violating copyright law.

 

[hribek]

News Update - October 2010
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_oct10.html

 

[Notebook]

Recruitment at REL:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/career_opps.html

Get your CV in now!

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[tblaxland]

Recruitment at REL:

Not sure I qualify for this one or not:

We are looking for a temporary enthusiastic person...

I'm not sure how to conjoin "temporary" with the rest of the sentence:

• Temporary person who is enthusiastic?
• Person who is temporarily enthusiastic?
• Temporary role for an enthusiastic person? <- Must be that one

 

[Notebook]

Yes, thats an odd useage of grammar, unless its very subtle!

On a different note, how do you get the little Lambda in front of your sentences, and isn't it too early for little lamdas, oh dear.

N.

 

[Notebook]

November News.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_nov10.html

Cool Jazz Man...

N.

 

[Grover]

could someone just post a short rundown (or a link to an existing one) of what they've achieved so far?

i cant wait for them to get it right, i think thats the main problem with space travel today: lack of power

thanks
-=Grover=-

 

[Notebook]

December 2010 News;

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_dec10.html

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[Notebook]

January 2011 News:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_jan11.html

They manged to get a beer link in, excellent.

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[Notebook]

Febuary 2011 News:

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/news_feb11.html

REL is Lead Sponsor of two RAeS events being held in March and April. The first, Gagarin’s Legacy – 50 Years On, will take place on Wednesday 16th March and the second, the RAeS’ Annual Conference, will run from 13 -14th April. We look forward to seeing you there.

N.

 

[hribek]

Hm, you beat me to it. Anyway, those two listed companies tasked with payload interface and structure loading studies look somewhat interesting.

 

[Dambuster]

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/10/skylon.space.shuttle.future/index.html?hpt=C2

Just saw this on the CNN international homepage!