[AR] B-58 \ was Ozone etc.

  • From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:49:23 -0700

On 09/19/2016 08:39 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:

Nobody's yet built
a VTVL rocket that can do really fast turnaround, but then, nobody's yet
built a 100km Mach 6 airplane that can do that either.  All too
plausibly, it could end up being less like a 747 and more like a B-58
(the plane whose operating costs were too high, and dispatch reliability
too low, for even the USAF).  "This *isn't* just like an airplane." --
Jeff Greason.

So what was the problem with the B-58... was it
a flawed concept, or just implemented badly?

-dave w


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