From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk   
      
   Allen Meece  wrote:   
   > < wings that uses a single rocket motor all the way to orbit, and dumps   
   > it's gas tank on the way up.>>   
   >   Like an SS1 with a drop tank? Just brainstorming but if SS1 had a twin   
   > strapped under it, that was just a fuel tank, that might hold 30+ times the   
   > fuel of a single SS1. The tank could be dropped when empty and then flown   
   back   
   > by computer and remote control, keeping the cost down.   
      
   I'm assuming you'r getting "30+" times from the fact that it it needs some   
   30* the speed.   
   However, that doesn't work, as you've also got to accellerate the fuel,   
   so it becomes 900*, but then the engines, and ... can't cope with that,   
   so it gets orribly complex.   
      
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