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  1. Phil Smith

    Space PDF Collection

    Hey there, I dont know about pdf version, but you always can convert djvu to pdf (for example, printing his book with some PDF printer )
  2. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    Hey ISProgram! Sorry mate, it's been tooooo long, almost a year)) I got a lot of work... How is your Aquarius B1 vehicle? is it still in developing stage? If you got some questions about rocket structure / engine design - let me know. Better hit me with email - philsmith29990 "at" yahoo.com ...
  3. Phil Smith

    Orbiter Screenshot Thread

    Playing with Orbiter beta. Just above the Everest.. I can tell you one thing - even this current release is full of bugs and fatal errors, 3d landscape takes me away - gosh - it's amazing!:cheers:
  4. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    Nice! waiting for the addon)) Great to hear! You're welcome!:cheers: It reminds me one song :lol: :
  5. Phil Smith

    Request Any 6-degrees Attitude Indicator MFD?

    oops, I just looked at my screen at different angle (from side, when colors on the display changes little bit) and I saw the ball!)) it's there, just very dark - so when you look straight - it's black, but from left/right/top side - its dark silhouette appears)) So I guess it's probably glitch...
  6. Phil Smith

    Request Any 6-degrees Attitude Indicator MFD?

    Thank you guys! Align Plane II V1.2 is pretty cool on paper so I've downloaded and installed Orbiter 2006 and it's works, but ball doesn't load.. (see screenshot below) I guess the ball itself is a 3-d mesh but there ain't no mesh file in the archive I've downloaded from orbiter-hangar (just...
  7. Phil Smith

    Request Any 6-degrees Attitude Indicator MFD?

    yep, you're right, sorry, fixed:cheers:
  8. Phil Smith

    Request Any 6-degrees Attitude Indicator MFD?

    Hey guys! :tiphat: I wonder if is there any Attitude Indicator (old school version, like Apollo or Gemini had) or something like a Kerbal space program's NavBall? It would be great to have such MFD (special in some SimPit) like this: As far as I know, guys from NASSP mega-addon could do...
  9. Phil Smith

    External MFDs for Orbiter

    Roger understand! Thank you!:cheers:
  10. Phil Smith

    External MFDs for Orbiter

    Dziękuję bardzo!)) I tried it with my Samsung Galaxy phone and Asus 8" tablet - it works great! One more question - when I start the Orbiter there are 2 mfd's by default with 5900 and 5901 ports respectively - so how can I create more mfd's (5902, 5903, etc) for example for 4 or 6 mfd setup...
  11. Phil Smith

    External MFDs for Orbiter

    Hey guys! First off, I wanna thank kamaz for his great job!:cheers: I've been starting to thing about a simpit so I took your scheme as a start point: I have a few questions about external mfd's 1) I'm a noob in programming and orbiter addon developing :facepalm:, so I wanna ask you is there a...
  12. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    My congratulations! :cheers: Waiting for the progress :cool:
  13. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    left "short" version is J-2 right? so first of all we calculate expansion ratios and then Isp's. For the left one: e = D_exit^2 / D_throar^2 = 2.39^2 / 0.47^2 = 25.6; if it's J-2, say chamber pressure is 763 psi, O/F = 5 Isp(RPA) = 430 sec Isp(real) = 421 sec Pressure at the nozzle exit -...
  14. Phil Smith

    Solving system of motion equations. Need help

    yeah baby! I've adjusted specific impulses little bit and BINGO!:cheers: all parameters are within V-2 flight data range.:hailprobe: Fixed version of the excel file: https://app.box.com/s/b242o0sms6qz5f2oozxu
  15. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    LH2 / LF2 combination gives highest Isp value (among liquid bi-propellants), but in real life fluorine is TOO toxic adn TOO active (cause it's the highest performance oxidiser) and TOO dangerous to handle (http://www.astronautix.com/props/lf2lh2.htm ). As far your project is for paper and...
  16. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    you need "estimated delivered performance" table. According wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_J-2 ) I used: O/F = 5.5, Ae/At (expantion area ratio) = 27.5 and 763 psi of chamber pressure. So after solving the problem I've got 429.83 sec of vacuum Isp - little bit higher than J-2...
  17. Phil Smith

    Solving system of motion equations. Need help

    Hey everybody!) Oh boy, finally gathered enough info about V-2 missile and optimize calculations, but with Excel - MatLab didn't wanna compute em right desperately so I decided to create an excel spread sheet(s) for this purpose. So results really look nice. I've attack my .xlsx file if you'd...
  18. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    Hey!:hello: LN is just natural logarithm - Natural logarithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It can be easily computed with windows calculator (example - https://www.riskprep.com/blog/73-using-the-windows-calculator ) You should divide M0 and M1 not subtract, so: deltaV for first stage =...
  19. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    First off - my congratulations about reaching the orbit! + this big elliptical one shows you have extra deltaV budget so you can increase your payload mass if you will. About skin thickness. saturn V tanks (on first and second stages) was made of 2 inch thick 2219-T87 aluminum slab that is...
  20. Phil Smith

    Calculating the dry mass of a 5m+ diameter stage.

    i'm not a pro addon developer either, but as I see on your screen #2 it's a first moment of second stage firing? if so, you had very steep trajectory - 302 km is quite high altitude for first stage cut-off - it's should be around 80-110 km range in your case. Unfortunately, if the current 2nd...
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