For sure and I agree with your conclusion. I am purley stating based on a assumption of the future

Going to drop as test vehicle from a UAV at a angle of around 20 degrees to see passive stability with grid fins

And how much restoration force they have

With some drop tests I did and CFD, it wa concluded that grid fins have too much bow shock

Found so research saying sweeping them helps decrease it at transonic speeds like the ones on a Falcon 9

So we'll see...

Lmk when rockets take off in Florida.. I can see them

I heard they're working on a rocket powered by astronaut farts

#facts

Kind of, but densified methane to be specific. It's not at KSC though. Its out at Boca Chica

Biggest flying boat ever build vs biggest flying boat ever designed

If we can use balloons to reach orbit, this would change everything about getting materials to orbit without an insane energy cost
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32082/we-talk-giant-boomerang-shaped-airships-space-and-phoenix-lights-with-jp-aerospaces-founder

How would they work once they reached the upper atmosphere though? Isn’t the air virtually nonexistent past a certain point?

@Yukon

Really nice 3D print job with the grid fins

@GoldKeyOboist isn't your pfp the rocket monument in Moscow?

yes

Fed-Ex 737 Nice. U Russian?

nah

Well why the potato in Russian and rocket monument in Moscow lol?

Yeah that's a good question

Spotting from the Jungfrau at 13000ft

Wow nice shot

Thx

I heard that you can get Trump's helicopter as a christmas ornament

russian language learner rn

Ah I could help lol

It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game called guess which pictures JP will reject this time!

N714CB or N271NV?

Possible. Just got to wait 1-2 weeks now to find out.

The California livery shot is just beatiful

RN que times are only like 3 days or so

dont worry they rejected 3 of my photos today

Tell me how this gets rejected???

...and I bet this will get rejected

I might try this one

But they're all good

and yes, I intentionally zoomed in a lot