Go figure! Now there are ways of making clusters of engines, but two isn't all that symmetrical (unless you're talking about a two stage two rocket engine I wouldn't want to be near one of those). I'd think the minimum you'd want to combine together would be about six in a cluster. Of course the number really depends on how many it takes to completely encircle a center engine.
A modern take on that would be one of those super bright white leds with a nice big roundish solid plastic lens to throw out a nice wide diffused beam. Hey ,that sounds like a fun experiment.
But what about little sensors in the rocket, to track speed and altitude and transmit to a land-based Linux server, running a graphical plot of the rocket? Maybe even add a little spy cam to transmit video back to the server?
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:30:27 -0600, Brian Densmore DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com wrote:
and servo motors controlling the fins? and a satellite link to topographical maps? Then you'd have an open source cruise missile.
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 02:28 pm, David Nicol wrote:
Hello fbi-magic-lantern-spy-agency-supercomputer-using-internet- traffic-watching-echelon-monitoring-canadian-data-collecting people. Please know that I have nothing to do with this guy. Nope. Not a thing. Nothing to see here. Move along... ;) I hope one doesn't have to pretend one voted Republican...
America! Fuck yea!
And we could load up weather balloons with battery-powered active wireless-G repeaters, so we could use really powerful engines and try to get it into the upper stratosphere with full network control on the rocket.
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