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AAAdrone said:I seriously don't know what you could possibly want with something so large and ungainly.
AAAdrone said:I seriously don't know what you could possibly want with something so large and ungainly.
Before the Stratolaunch was ever conceived, the Tupolev Bureau proposed a fully reusable replacement for the Buran Space Shuttle The "OOS" Which stood for Odnostupenchati Orbitalni Samolyot, (one-stage orbital plane)
Like the Stratolaunch system The shuttle would ride under the Aerospace Transport System (AKS) A Dual fuselage version of the Antonov An-225 with between 24 and 40 Jet Engines The OSS would have a weight of 675 tons and the AKS would have a weight of 1000 tons for a total of around 1600 tons.
Primarary source False Steps: The Space Race as It Might Have Been By Paul Drye
Move over Stratolaunch with your tiny carrier aircraft
Here is Mother of all Carrier Aircraft
Even with more payload how could anybody operate that thing from an airfield? I guess it would have to be just a college design.