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SEM B/G or RG
Hello All,
If it's okay to cross-post a portion of a posting in another forum (because it is relevant to both), here is information on a fictional (though technically sound, being in a hard-science fiction novel which contains diagrams) space plane design that would make an excellent hinged-wing boost-glider or rocket glider (RC or Free Flight) that would also be a Future/Fiction Scale model! Dr. Robert L. Forward's 1990 novel "Rocheworld" contains diagrams (and a color cover illustration) of the Surface Excursion Module (SEM), a large vehicle resembling the Lockheed U-2 spy plane. The nuclear turbo-rocket powered craft was designed to fly in planetary atmospheres using the ambient air for propulsion, with the additional capability (using an onboard propellant tank) of flying as a pure rocket vehicle near airless worlds. The SEM, like all spacecraft and other devices in Dr. Forward's novels, is based on real-world scientific and engineering principles and could actually be built. Also, its generous wing area would make for a good-flying model version. "Rocheworld" is available from AbeBooks.com (see: www.abebooks.com ), Alibris.com (see: www.alibris.com ), and Amazon.com (see: www.amazon.com ).
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