I bet he didn’t test if for rolling over  bowling ball creators that he could encounjter out there on the salt flats. :-o) --- On Fri, 1/16/09, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote: From: Chuck Hards <chuck.I hards@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Personal space shuttle test at Bonneville Salt Flats To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, January 16, 2009, 8:33 AM I would advise him to wait until fall to go to Bonneville. It can be uneven and squishy in the spring; that's why "Speed Week" is held in late summer. Really surprised that he doesn't seem to understand aircraft construction. He's using non-stressed composite skins over a welded-tube armature that obviously isn't up to the stresses the airframe is going to encounter. RIP, Morris. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:

This is a link to a video story about a private aerospace engineer who is building his own suborbital space shuttle named "Hermes".

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712&cl=11527165&src=new...

The story ends stating that the builder intends to bring the shuttle to

the

Salt Flats in a few months for testing.

- Kurt

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