Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!

(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, "Casey Wilson" said:
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
hlink.net...
"Casey Wilson" wrote in message
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Only 120,000 more feet straight up and they've made the first
qualifying flight for the $10 million X-Prize.


That would leave them about 8000 feet short of the requisite 100 km.

Nope, it would give them a 4,000 foot pad. Go back to sleep, McNicoll.

Are you saying that 200,000 feet + 120,000 feet is more than 100 km, or
are you saying that they went above 200,000 feet? It's not clear to me,
and that's confusing because 100 km is 328083.99 feet.

I second that, and figured someone was being intentionally obtuse.
Reading the article, you find that they actually "passed 200,000
feet", specifically to 212,000. But apparently just saying that would
not be consistent with whatever little battle is going on here.

$ units
500 units, 54 prefixes
You have: 100 km
You want: feet
* 328083.99
/ 3.048e-06
You have: ^D
$

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