[AR] Re: RAROSS

  • From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 13:43:22 -0700

On 5/8/2019 7:54 AM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

On 08/05/2019 06:07, Troy Prideaux wrote:
Not much mention on how they deal with aero drag.

"We should be able to extract some of the potential energy of the column of air above us falling down [??] as we pass through it falling up, again using Newton's law of equal and opposite action"

So, dealing with aero drag by coming up with a rationale for treating it as thrust instead.  Neat trick!

Henry


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