Soaring on Mars?

[Roy Clark, B6]

Check it out at:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

[André Somers]

Roy Clark, B6 wrote:

> Check it out at:
>
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
I quote from the site:
"Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is
featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional
astronomer."

Today, that is a nice picture of supernova remnant. Cool, but not really
soaring related. Maybe you wanted to refer to
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050323.html instead?

André

[Stefan]

André Somers wrote:

> Today, that is a nice picture of supernova remnant. Cool, but not really
> soaring related. Maybe you wanted to refer to
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050323.html instead?

Or click the right arrow under the picture for previous days.

Concerning soaring on Mars: Somewhere on the web site of X-Plane (a
flight sim), they explain very well the difficulties which you would
encounter when trying to fly on Mars.

Stefan

[goneill]

That is what the Perlan project is trying to explore,
flight in thin air equal to Mars air density,a world glider height record
is a byproduct
"Stefan" > wrote in message
...
> André Somers wrote:
>
>> Today, that is a nice picture of supernova remnant. Cool, but not really
>> soaring related. Maybe you wanted to refer to
>> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050323.html instead?
>
> Or click the right arrow under the picture for previous days.
>
> Concerning soaring on Mars: Somewhere on the web site of X-Plane (a flight
> sim), they explain very well the difficulties which you would encounter
> when trying to fly on Mars.
>
> Stefan

[Stefan]

goneill wrote:

> That is what the Perlan project is trying to explore,
> flight in thin air equal to Mars air density,a world glider height record

There's not really much to explore: Stall speed is very high, so you
need a huge runway to take off and land, and there will be some
implications concerning the radius of turns. The smaller gravitation has
some influece, too, but I can't tell off hand which.

Stefan

[goneill]

Nasa are funding a chunk of the research because from what Einar
(project leader)said there actually isn't that much research material
on the that part of the atmosphere. Secondly if you don't have the
data how can you design any flight vehicle to operate efficiently
in that enviroment.
gary

"Stefan" > wrote in message
...
> goneill wrote:
>
>> That is what the Perlan project is trying to explore,
>> flight in thin air equal to Mars air density,a world glider height record
>
> There's not really much to explore: Stall speed is very high, so you need
> a huge runway to take off and land, and there will be some implications
> concerning the radius of turns. The smaller gravitation has some influece,
> too, but I can't tell off hand which.
>
> Stefan