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Yes that is the preferred way... with either the X-15A-2 or A-3. I have a piece of artwork but the rights on it kinda prevented me from posting it. And in case you all haven't noticed.... XB-70 has 10 wheels and a 50,000+ lb payload Kenworth Semi-Truck has 10 wheels and a 50,000+ lb payload.... Yep, B-70 is my next semi truck!
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It's sad that one of the pilots of this aircraft died mid-airing into my Semi-truck.... err avatar I am pretty certain that if you get a picture of that from a different angle you can see that the center engine is literally some of the First gen slab sided XLR-89 bells cut and spliced together it isn't a LR-105 (telling is the flat shelf just below the skirt)
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Honestly it depends on the Source. I know in every source I have and have written it is nm or nM not nmi But I also know "public friendly" sources that do nMile or N-Mile, IE places where they talk about Statute miles as miles instead of Statute Miles and please never abbreviate Statute miles as smile
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I thought the KSP AVC was bugged and caused issues with many "code intensive" mods like B9PArtSwitch... Yet I see a notice in the upper left corner that AVC is running on your game? Maybe I am wrong But that is what I remember... Because I am using all the latests and have none of these issues... I would guess it is due to a mod that is not Benjee10 nor CobaltWolf nor the dependancies for Benjee or Cobalts mods.
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Mcdouble has gone on to other things...it seems. My last DM was 3-4 years ago trying to get CRK patch going for Alternate Apollo. The Models are not at the high fidelity level as BDB but they work well in spite of this. GE's D2 program is an efficient take on the Apollo Needs as laid out in 1960-1961 time frame. Before LOR, Before LANDING on the moon etc... A great method of getting
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Douglas was caught out on the S-IV program... Firstly,, no matter what, the delays were inevitable, they very quickly had to switch gears to the S-IVB and S-IVC (not the ETS reuse of that designation.) S-IV was entering "battleship" form when most of the engineers were switched to S-IVB. So no matter what, the delays were inevitable in my opinion. It was more the fact that NASA's Execs kept trying to stick with a "pre-moon speech" development plan, when the S-IV would never have gotten us there... so if you want to blame anyone... it is the Kennedy Administration. Given what it had to tackle and given that modern Hydrolox Stages are not as well insulated per unit pound as the S-IV and S-IVB... I think Douglas did a great job. Given the constant engine swapping in the time frame we are talking about, Saturn came when it did because of those decisions not because of something at a subcontractor (Douglas in this case.)
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During my reaserch, on Titan, when I wrote my Titan articles 3 or 4 years ago, I found some refrences to people suggesting Saturn to launch Gemini. The reasoning that was used by Chamberlin et al. Titan is SOONER than Saturn. The Pogo issue you mention pushed Gemini launches back to almost concurrency with Saturn.