African Sub orbital Attempt!

• African Sub orbital Attempt! by Apollo-phill on 03 Dec, 2011 13:55
• http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3976742/Meet-the-afronauts.html
  
  Good smiley story 
  
  Hope those guys make it off the ground one day and I hope they can find an engine donator!
  
  Deserve support in some form
  
  
  A-P
• #1 by Ben the Space Brit on 03 Dec, 2011 14:16
• That machine might manage low-speed/high altitude but that is all.  A real sub-orbital aircraft would need swept or delta wings to deal with the high-speed airflow
• #2 by Nahavandi on 16 Jan, 2012 18:28
• I found this video a while ago:
  
  
  
  The German OTRAG project also comes to mind , they had a rocket range in Congo:
  
  http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/OTRAG/Description/Frame.htm
• #3 by jcm on 16 Jan, 2012 19:24
• Quote from: Nahavandi on 16 Jan, 2012 18:28

  I found this video a while ago:
  
  
  
  The German OTRAG project also comes to mind , they had a rocket range in Congo:
  
  http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/OTRAG/Description/Frame.htm
  

  
  Nice! Planned apogee of 36 km, so would not have been a space rocket even if successful. (for those who don't have time to watch the video, actual apogee = 0 km...  I wish the Congolese researchers the persistence that will lead to eventual success.)
• #4 by Nahavandi on 06 Feb, 2012 08:30
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere_(rocket_family)#Troposphere_4
  
  Troposphere IV:
  
  
• #5 by Nahavandi on 06 Feb, 2012 09:26
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG
  http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/otrag.htm
  
  Failed orbital launch :