simonshack wrote:AlexJones wrote:
a jet plane full of passengers (such as Flight 1549 who allegedly 'glided'
and water-landed safely into
the Hudson) would plummet to
the ground like a dead duck - in
the event of BOTH engines failing.
As for
the Space Shuttle, well, just look at its wingspan/surface. Imagine its weight-to-wingspan ratio. Now, look at some NASA Space Shuttle landing videos and listen to
the commentaries:
"the shuttle is currently travelling at twice the speed of sound. It is expected to touch down 9 minutes from now".
I mean, plueeeeze !

I agree
the flight 1549 after both engines failing would be a large brick and would have seconds to crash land. emphasis on crash part, it all depends on hight and speed at time of problem.
The Space Shuttle you imagine would be all over
the place in its descent just by looking at
the shape of
the thing. I'm thinking a real flying plane for a prop at
the moment, that flies slow in
the sky and would never make it anywhere near supersonic speeds. On
the ground a prop is used on
the rocket luncher platform, NASA have got more than enough money to make one I think, it could be launched and jettisoned like
the tank. It just needs some Hollywood editing and for
the public to be three miles away from
the prop so to not get a good look to be able to get away with it, and then edit all
the footage and then NASA have got what they need.
If you look at
the three rocket assembly on
the platform ready for launch,
the Space? Shuttle looks out of place, a tagged on extra not
the main machine. What if it really is only a prop and
the two rockets really do all
the lifting and
the whole thing never sees space but crashes down range in
the ocean, and is collected for
the next blast off a truly reusable prop. I know it sounds crazy but it could be done because that is how they meant to reuse
the solid busters anyway. I'm just thinking aloud but we never thought that NASA would use a prob in
the desert and say they went to
the moon, and notice they reused
the prop on every one after, and just to show how tight fisted they are they used
the same one for
the museum exhibition.
