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Topic: Rocketing Into the Future (Michel van Pelt)
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cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 12-14-2011 06:45 AM
Rocketing Into the Future: The History and Technology of Rocket Planes by Michel van Pelt This book describes the technology, history, and future of rocket planes. Michel van Pelt journeys into this exciting world, examining the exotic concepts and actual flying vehicles that have been devised over the last hundred years. He recounts the history of rocket airplanes, from the early pioneers who attached simple rockets onto their wooden glider airplanes to the modern world of high-tech research vehicles. The author visits museums where rare examples of early rocket planes are kept and modern laboratories where future spaceplanes are being developed. He explains the technology in an easily understandable way, describing the various types of rocket airplanes and looking at the possibilities for the future. Michel van Pelt considers future spaceplanes, presenting various modern concepts and developments. He describes the development from cutting edge research via demonstrator vehicles to operational use. He also evaluates the replacement of the Space Shuttle with a seemingly old-fashioned capsule system, the parallel developments in suborbital spaceplanes such as SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, piloted versus automatic flight, and related developments in airliners and military aircraft. - Springer, Softcover, April 28, 2012
- 420 p. 172 illus., 10 in color
- ISBN 978-1-4614-3199-2
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hermit Member Posts: 186 From: Scotland Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 12-14-2011 12:17 PM
I have the manuscript in my sweaty palms for editing right now. It is a really good story. |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 02-05-2012 03:45 PM
And nice cover for this book! |
GoesTo11 Member Posts: 1309 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-05-2012 03:51 PM
Seriously, they put the X-2 on the cover? Not sure that would have been my first choice... |
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 02-06-2012 06:11 PM
Perhaps the publishers chose that belly-flopper photo to portray the early days of x-planes versus the sleek black cgi thing up above it? |
Jay Chladek Member Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 02-06-2012 06:17 PM
quote: Originally posted by GoesTo11: Seriously, they put the X-2 on the cover? Not sure that would have been my first choice...
Why? It is a rocket plane afterall and a little more obscure a subject than the X-15, but it was as high performance as things got before the X-15 came out. The X-2 was no less important a vehicle than those aircraft that came before (i.e. the X-1) and those that came after. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-06-2012 06:19 PM
quote: Originally posted by Cozmosis22: ...the sleek black cgi thing up above it?
That would be Reaction Engine's Skylon spaceplane.
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hermit Member Posts: 186 From: Scotland Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 03-30-2012 03:21 AM
This book has been laid out and sent to Springer for printing, so should be released in the summer.
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