A is for Altitudinous apogee. When Mudspike.com’s major-domo heads for the edge of space the resulting write-ups are always worth reading. Chris Frishmuth’s latest trip into the wild blue-black yonder involved X-Plane 11 and a $10 SpaceShipTwo recreation. Although the lightly modelled add-on doesn’t animate SS2’s ingenious pivoting wings – the premature activation of which caused the disintegration of VSS Enterprise in 2014 – the dev’s cunning use of inconspicuous drogue chutes mean convincing simulations of SS2’s ‘feathered‘ reentries are possible. (more…)
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