PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Autorotation and Ground-Effect
View Single Post
Old 30th Nov 2002, 07:11
  #113 (permalink)  
Dave Jackson
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 452
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
heedm

"Space Shuttle: Produces thrust by firing particles out the end. With atmosphere behind it, there is resistance. The pressure in the combustion chamber must exceed one atmosphere just to start firing stuff out...it then increases to some number much bigger than one atm.

Ah! But why is there a greater force in space, where there's no "atmosphere behind it"?

Dave J.:
Dave Jackson is offline