Thanks for posting Topspeed…

Nice to see a young derek piggot in action : )

My pleasure….here is more about them; http://www.humanpoweredflying.propdesigner.co.uk/html/flights.html

Basic roketry is a good to know too; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

Spiral does look cool !

This may not be only way to reach lower orbits;

I personally like to read these numbers here; http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/combined_white_knight_spaceshipone_flight_tests

Like Mach 3.09 at 65 km etc !

The point remains, you want to fight over the enemies territory not yours. Tiny “efficient” fighter are of little use. They may be cute and fast, but about their only use is to look pretty at local airshows.

How about that whole system now..does it look effective ?

er, climb to 70000ft on your turbofan? and the air it needs will come from…. where?

with such a short wing span, climbing that high would need a high supersonic speed, something your turbofan simply can not provide

in fact, what you’re trying to make is a little bit like this:

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chances are you won’t make it work before a couple of centuries…

I squeezed a couple of centuries into 7 months…didn’t I ?

Happy Valentines day everyone !

A side effect of this if the 2 x 7 kN rocket boosters on GM-1 jets were burning long enuf that all pilots jettisoned from mother ship at 50-60 km altitude could climb to 80 + km altitude…thus all becoming officially astronauts/cosmonauts/taigonauts !

Topspeed ,in this thread alone ,you have gone from one type of plane use to another [military-passenger ] ,solar panel,batteries,human power and now rockets .Non of the aircraft you have shown could even sit on a runway in the weather conditions we are having now.
In 16 years you really ought to have alot more to show for it than you have,in 16 years time technology SHOULD make your designs obsolete,in 16 years time the majority of us on here will be dead or too old to pedal.

Well I got this spesific craft idea on the drawing board at around..3 days ago ( post # 98 )..the first pedal/solar powered passenger craft around 2011/2012 winter. I think this rocket ship using the first tank/stage could take off at any given weather…and get above clouds pretty quickly..to fly on solar alone.

Military ship came when someone said this is boring….there seems to be more people in the military thread…..:: )