Actor Seth Green on the Rotary Rocket

10 responses to “Actor Seth Green on the Rotary Rocket”

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   jurvetson

   Feb 12, 2013 at 4:37 am

   The cockpit entry, perfect for Scott Evil…
   

   It’s big… and flew with a rotary helicopter blades on top, with a rocket motor on each tip:
   

   But the company failed, with the talent reforming into other Mojave space startups. The dedication plaque:
   

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   HaleyHyatt

   Feb 12, 2013 at 5:20 am

   I love the Teddy Roosevelt quote, too. Here’s to the innovators, the creators, the explorers, and those who dare to have failures and learn invaluable things from them.

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   jurvetson

   Feb 12, 2013 at 6:59 am

   Yes! We then received a briefing from spaceport CEO Stu Witt, who told us that "The Mojave Air & Space Port grants permission. This is the one place you can have permission to kill yourself — and your team — with innovation risk."

   P.S. This photo and today’s X-Prize excursion was just blogged by Parabolic Arc

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   scleroplex

   Feb 12, 2013 at 11:28 am

   agreed!!
   the last thing i ever want to do is live in the great twilight.

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   tom_brosz

   Feb 12, 2013 at 4:06 pm

   Nice photos! Brings back a lot of fond memories.

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   rocketanne2013

   Feb 12, 2013 at 5:35 pm

   I selected that quote for the plaque to honor everyone who devoted their efforts to trying, even though we didn’t succeed. Yet Rotary helped set the stage for other dreamers that came afterwards. Before Rotary, not too many people thought commercial human spaceflight was practical, and only a decade later, it is national space policy…

   Thanks everyone!

   Gary C Hudson
   Former CEO, RRC

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   js.brain

   Feb 13, 2013 at 6:51 pm

   Will be fun to climb a rocket especially in space….

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   born1945

   Feb 13, 2013 at 8:58 pm

   In the 1960s, I think, there was a man working at Boeing Field (King County Airport, Seattle) that was developing a helicopter with jet nozzles at the tips of its rotor blades. It was called Monty Copter. I assume it never went into production because I have never heard of it since then. I don’t know if there were any patents for the technology. The jet nozzles received their "air" through tubes that went from the engine to the nozzles.

   I wonder how this is different from the Rotary Rocket set-up.

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   scleroplex

   Feb 13, 2013 at 10:45 pm

   http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/montecopter-15.php

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    born1945

    Feb 14, 2013 at 12:36 am

    scleroplex, thanks for the link. If I had spelled Monte correctly . . .

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