Delta Clipper

There was some other details I wanted to clarify but that I did not feel like creating a new note for and that was until I just read closer about the McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper rocket.

One detail I thought of later that I wanted to clarify was that I saw that green rocket as it landed. Seeing that rocket landing in that sleeping dream I had is what made me think of looking up the name of that rocket and that is when I noted the name is Delta Clipper. Also the airplane I saw myself struggling to land after all the crew, who were dressed in some kind of uniforms, perhaps spacesuits, perhaps something conventional for aircraft crews, did land successfully. Then I had the conversation. Also, another detail I wanted to note is that my memory of Debra must have been 1990 or 1991 and probably 1991. I remember asking her out on a date and we went out to dinner one time. No wait, that must have been 1992. She wanted to see that house I was going to buy in Country Club Estates and so that was after I returned from Memphis. She was a computer programmer at the bank. The detail I wanted to note was she was one time wearing a red dress with high heels and that was memorable.

And so the reason I decided to record this note in my journal is because I just took a closer look at the Delta Clipper. When I read about it first I scanned only a few details and I was left with the sense the program did not extend beyond 1989. Looking at it closer just short while ago I read some interesting details such as how flight testing began in August 1993. Just makes no sense why I would see such precise details in my sleeping dreams.

AND WITHOUT A DOUBT YOU ARE STILL ALL MINDLESS COWARDS!!!!!!

YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKING MORONS!!!!!!!!





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X


McDonnell Douglas DC-X

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an unmanned prototype of a reusable single stage to orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) from 1991 to 1993. Starting 1994 until 1995, testing continued through funding of the US civil space agency NASA. In 1996, the DC-X technology was completely transferred to NASA


Design

The DC-X was never designed to achieve orbital altitudes or velocity, but instead to demonstrate the concept of vertical take off and landing. The vertical take off and landing concept was popular in science fiction films from the 1950s (Rocketship X-M, Destination Moon, and others), but not seen in real world designs. It would take off vertically like standard rockets, but also land vertically with the nose up. This design used attitude control thrusters and retro rockets to control the descent, allowing the craft to begin reentry nose-first, but then roll around and touch down on landing struts at its base. The craft could be refueled where it landed, and take off again from exactly the same position — a trait that allowed unprecedented turnaround times.


Flight testing

Construction of the DC-X started in 1991 at McDonnell Douglas' Huntington Beach facility. The aeroshell was custom-constructed by Scaled Composites, but the majority of the spacecraft was built from "off the shelf" parts, including the engines and flight control systems.

The DC-X first flew, for 59 seconds, on 18 August 1993. It flew two more flights 11 September and 30 September, when funding ran out as a side effect of the winding down of the SDIO program. Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad was at the ground-based controls for some flights.

Further funding was provided by NASA and the Advanced Research Projects Agency however, and the test program restarted on 20 June 1994 with a 136 second flight. The next flight, 27 June 1994, suffered an inflight (minor) explosion, but the craft successfully executed an abort and autoland.










http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/x-33/dcxtests.html

McDonnell Douglas Aerospace

DELTA CLIPPER TEST PROGRAM OFF TO FLYING START

LAS CRUCES, N.M., June 20, 1994 -- Flight tests of the Delta Clipper- Experimental (DC-X) resumed today as the single-stage vehicle lifted off the flight stand here at White Sands Missile Range. The 8:42 a.m. MDT liftoff began the experimental flight vehicle's fourth consecutive successful flight.

DC-X is being developed by McDonnell Douglas for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) Single Stage Rocket Technology Program to prove the practicality, reliability, operability and cost efficiency of a reusable, single-stage-to-orbit flight vehicle. Flight tests were halted late last year when funds were exhausted. In April of this year, the NASA and the Advanced Research Projects Agency provided funds to complete testing in 1994.

The DC-X reached an altitude of 1,500 feet, and then followed a curved ascent to a height of 2,600 feet, traveling laterally 1,050 feet from the take-off point. Then flight controls commanded the DC-X to reverse its direction of flight and climb to an altitude of 2,850 feet. Once over its landing pad the vehicle descended vertically and touched down 136 seconds after liftoff. During this flight profile, the vehicle went through an angle of attack range of zero to 70 degrees.

"We're extremely pleased to be back in the air again. Today's flight further expands the DC-X's flight envelope," said Paul Klevatt, McDonnell Douglas program manager. "The flight was the fourth in a series of sub-orbital flights designed to demonstrate vertical takeoff and landing, subsonic maneuverability," he added.

After completion of the planned flight tests series this summer, the DC-X will be turned over to NASA. NASA is planning to upgrade systems and subsytems, incorporating advanced technologies for reflight of the vehicle in 1996.

The McDonnell Douglas team comprises an international group of aerospace companies: Douglas Aircraft Co., Long Beach, Calif.; McDonnell Douglas Aerospace at Huntington Beach, Calif., St. Louis, and Kennedy Space Center; Aerojet Propulsion Division, Sacramento, Calif.; Allied Signal Aerospace Co., Torrance, Calif.; Chicago Bridge and Iron Services, Inc., Oak Brook, Ill.; Deutsche Aerospace, Munich, Germany; General Connector, San Fernando, Calif.; Harris Corp., Rockledge, Fla.; Honeywell, Clearwater, Fla.; Integrated Systems, Santa Clara, Calif.; Martin Marietta, Denver, Colo.; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M.; Pratt & Whitney Government Engines and Space Division, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Process Fabrication, Inc., Santa Fe Springs, Calif.; Scaled Composites, Mojave, Calif.; and SpaceGuild, San Carlos, Calif.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M., June 27, 1994

Today at 8:37 a.m. MDT the Delta Clipper Experimental (DC-X) single-stage launch vehicle executed a safe landing on the desert floor, following an anomaly which occurred at takeoff.

An explosion of unknown origin took place at engine startup with subsequent damage to the DC-X's graphite fiber aeroshell. The DC-X, however, continued through its flight sequence with its avionics and engine systems performing normally, and liftoff was according to expectations.

"We were 17 seconds into the initial launch and flight mode when Pete Conrad, DC-X flight manager, initiated the vehicle's emergency autoland sequence and it descended according to plan," said Paul Klevatt, McDonnell Douglas' DC-X program director. Total flight time from start of engines to landing was 78 seconds. "We are pleased the vehicle returned essentially intact so that it can be repaired and flown again," Klevatt added.

Following the test flight, Lt. Col. Jess Sponable, Single Stage Rocket Technology program manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) stated, "This anomaly resulted in successful demonstrations of several important firsts: executing the autoland sequence demonstrating an 'aircraft-like' abort mode; landing on the gypsum, demonstrating the ability to land future SSTO vehicles virtually anywhere; and demonstrating the system's toughness and robustness, since the DC-X continued to fly despite the aeroshell damage." An anomaly investigation team has been formed and will report its findings and recommendations to Lt. Col. Sponable as soon as all data has been analyzed.

DC-X is being developed by McDonnell Douglas for the BMDO Single Stage Rocket Technology Program to prove the practicality, reliability, operability and cost efficiency of a reusable, single-stage-to-orbit flight vehicle.

WHITE SANDS, N.M., May 16, 1995

The Delta Clipper Experimental launch vehicle (DC-X) climbed into the skies over the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range










http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/503.htm

Extreme Risk

Stardate: Unknown

Original Airdate: October 28, 1998


TUVOK: Perhaps you weren't paying attention when the Malon freighter imploded.

PARIS: We won't be going in a Malon freighter, Tuvok. We'll be going in our new shuttlecraft.

KIM: Here we go again.

PARIS: Let's face it Class-two shuttles just don't cut it in the Delta quadrant. We've needed something bigger and better since we got here. It's time we built it!

CHAKOTAY: Tom, we've been through this I don't know how many times. We all appreciate your enthusiasm.

KIM: Speak for yourself, Commander.

CHAKOTAY: Bottom line, we don't have time to design and build a ship from scratch.

PARIS: I knew you were going to say that so I've given us a head start. Behold the Delta Flyer. Ultra-aerodynamic contours, retractable nacelles, parametallic hull plating, unimatrix shielding based on Tuvok's brilliant design for the multi-spatial probe, and a Borg-inspired weapons system.

SEVEN: The basic design elements are adequate.

PARIS: High praise.

KIM: If we used isomagnetic EPS conduits in the plasma manifold we could maximise the power distribution.

PARIS: That's the spirit, Harry.

TUVOK: My shield designs could be successfully applied to a vessel of this size.

PARIS: Big of you to admit it, Tuvok.

CHAKOTAY: And you think it'll be able to withstand the gas giant's atmosphere.

PARIS: The probe did.

JANEWAY: I'm impressed, but how quickly can it be built?

PARIS: We could replicate the alloys and the new design components, use spare parts from storage.










http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-voyager/caretaker-1-6758/


tv.com


Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 Episode 1

Caretaker (1)


While in pursuit of a Maquis ship in a region of space known as the Badlands, the starship Voyager, under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, is transported 70,000 light years from home into the uncharted region of the galaxy known as the Delta Quadrant.


AIRED: 1/16/95



http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55588294.html


HighBeam RESEARCH


National Journal

August 22, 1998 Rauch, Jonathan; Simendinger, Alexis; Cannon, Carl M.; Wildavsky, Ben; Cohen, Richard E.; Victor, Kirk; Barnes, James A.; Stone, Peter H.


On May 5, 1960, the Soviets announced to a startled world that they had shot down an American spy plane. President Eisenhower, having been assured that none of his secret spy planes could survive a missile hit, declared that the pilot of a missing "weather service" plane might have strayed into Soviet airspace by mistake.


http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ua232/2.shtml


AirDisaster.com


Date: 19 July 1989

Airline: United Air Lines

Flight No.: 232

Aircraft: DC-10-10

Location: Sioux City, IA

Fatalities: 112:296



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 1:43 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Sunday 26 May 2013