From: bondage@frontiernet.net   
      
   David Summers wrote:   
      
      
   > Anybody know why they don't use rotors for landing RLVs?  Any other   
   > ideas on how to reenter and come to a stop?  Do you think this approach   
   > is totally backwards?  Let's hash!   
      
      
      You must be new to all this. One guy tried very hard to develop such   
   a vehicle. As with most RLV efforts, money ran out before something   
   actually got into space, but a very interesting technology demonstrator   
   did come of it.   
      
     Go Google "Rotary Rockets" or "Gary Hudson"   
      
      
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