Comments on: New Benson Space vehicle design http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/25/new-benson-space-vehicle-design/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Peter Shearer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/25/new-benson-space-vehicle-design/comment-page-1/#comment-151867 Fri, 25 May 2007 20:30:05 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/05/25/new-benson-space-vehicle-design/#comment-151867 Looks cool and I’m glad they’re getting away from that lifting body concept… Not that I don’t like lifting body aircraft but that one was just kinda ugly and left undesirable interior space for passengers.

Am wondering about their claim to a “carefree” re-entry? They’re going to have to change a few things before I feel safe about their re-entry… Does anybody remember the yaw-off incident the x-15 had? The one where the plane yawed 15 degrees right(unnoticed by the pilot), re-entered at a right angle to the flight path and entered a mach 5 spin. The aircraft never recovered and Pilot Michael Adams payed the ultimate cost.

With modern GPS and a RCS (reaction control system) that problem could be avoided… but that’s a Hands-On solution… definitively NOT carefree…

I could make a few suggestions to adjust their new design to a care-free reentry… but do you think they’d listen to little ol’ me?

Would love to help… I’m chasing the same dream they are.

So if DreamChaser ever makes it into space would they rename it DreamCatcher? That seems more appropriete don’t you think?

]]> By: Chance http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/25/new-benson-space-vehicle-design/comment-page-1/#comment-151781 Fri, 25 May 2007 11:52:37 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/05/25/new-benson-space-vehicle-design/#comment-151781 Wow, it uh, looks like a…um… I’ll just say retro. Very ’50s retro. Yeah, that’s it.

I don’t know, I sort of liked the old design. Not that engineering obstacles are beholden to what I think looks nice.

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