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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by lotsofmangos on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:56PM (#8072697)
How about very tight hypersonic atmospheric slingshot maneuvers using aerodynamic lift from the shockwave generated by a flexible waverider lifting body? I think it would have significant problems modeling that without some serious modding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveRider#Hypersonic_Sail_Waver...

Also, my point with the logic is that when looking at the differences between physics in KSP and the real world, we are dealing with overlapping, rather than nesting sets.

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Re:SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage by m_mueller on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @03:00AM (#8073203)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveRider#Hypersonic_Sail_Waver...

First time I've seen this, thanks. You certainly have a point that feasible designs in KSP vs. real world aren't completely nested. When I was arguing about KSP being an upper limit, I didn't really think about the SSTO case - at least the stock simulation certainly doesn't hold up to be able do any kind of feasibility check for horizontally launched vehicles.

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