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SKYLON

“The
British Black-Glass Zeppelin=
em>
That Will Ride Columns of Steam to Outer Space
In An Inventive=
New
Fashion!”<=
/b>**
“Britain's
Bad-Ass Rocketplane And
Possible Shuttle Successor”*
“The denser lower
atmosphere provides nothing but drag to a conventional rocket - but SKYLON uses it for aerodynamic lift, oxi=
dizer
and reaction mass. Then when the air is too thin to provide lift SKYLON goes upwards like any other rocket
using onboard oxygen. A good example of designing your =
way
round a problem rather than throwing money at more and more horsepower!R=
21;***=
span>

“A black, future-tech spaceplane
that absolutely looks the part….
.. a completely different =
and
un-rocket-ish solution from the British boffins”*=
span>
“I fully expect the passenger module for=
SKYLON to have wood panelling,
velvet-upholstered seats, and brass dials and gauges. A=
lso, a
rack to put your top hat in microgravity.”**
=
“The SKYLON de=
sign
promises to take off from a specially strengthened runway, fly into space,
reenter the atmosphere, and land back on the runway like a conventional aeroplane, without staging... <=
/span>SKYLON us=
es a
relatively conventional-looking retractable undercarriage.”*****

“Single
stage to orbit (SSTO) – as God and Robert Heinlein intended****
“… a workhorse=
of
space, a vehicle that introduces the public to cheap spaceflight, just as t=
he
DC3 once made the world familiar with cheap and easy air travel.”****=
**
“=
Wicked-cool
craft...
.. may ultimately turn int=
o the
most sci-fi-looking spaceship we've ever flown.”*

SKYLON
MISSION
=

All photographs © Martin Clutterbuck, 2011
LINKS:
Reaction
Engines Limited (REL), builders of SKYLON, and © owners of =
all
CGI imagery
YouTube of SKYLON Mis=
sion
animation
BBC Report =
on
SKYLON
Model
of SKYLON exclusive to the British Interplanetary Society
End credits
*Kit Eaton, Fast
Company
**,NASA
spaceflight forum user simonbp=
span>
***YouTube user treeefrogUK
****Title of a thread in a number of rock=
et
forums
***** E=
xampleproblems
******Adrian Berry, “The DC=
3 of
Space”
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