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Grognard:
here's my two pence... Let's Get Out There!
To The Stars!
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Grognard on 14 Nov 2014, 22:07 ---here's my two pence... Let's Get Out There!
To The Stars!
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I recognize most of these. I'm not sure of the one below the SR71 (looks like an X3, but not sure) or the one sandwiched between the Soyuz and the Enterprise E.
Akima:
I'm pretty sure the rocket-plane above the Space Shuttle is intended to be X-15. The vehicle above the Soyuz is an X-33. I don't know why the X-1 and SR-71 are there; as far as I know, no example of either aircraft ever reached an altitude that would qualify as space flight, even by the USA's relatively low threshold of 50 miles (264,000ft. or roughly 80,000m). If they are intended as "early steps on the road", where are the Montgolfier brothers' balloons (first crewed free flight 1783), Henri Giffard's dirigible (first powered flight 1852), the Wright Flyer, and so on?
Comparing the three Star Trek universe ships, you can see what I mean about not maintaining consistency even with the rules of their own fantasy physics. I believe the front of the warp nacelles are supposed to be Bussard ram-scoops*. OK, one can see a common thread between Phoenix and Enterprise, much as one sees forward-facing air-intakes on jet aircraft from the earliest experiments to the present day. Now look at Enterprise-E. The intakes are no longer radially symmetrical and face... up?
*I will leave aside the question of whether such scoops would actually work. Read the Wikipedia article.
Kugai:
@Aziraphale
The Phoenix, Zephram Cochrans Warp Drive test vehicle.
Built out of a Titan Ballistic Missile, it was the first Human craft to achieve Warp Flight and led to First Contact with the Vulcans.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 14 Nov 2014, 22:13 ---
I recognize most of these. I'm not sure of the one below the SR71...
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That's an X-15, I think, which was designed to beat the Mach-5 barrier. It was the only aircraft before Burt Rutan's Spaceship-1 whose pilots received astronauts' wings.
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