1) Festival of Britain 2) Tower in London
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[spacecraft] Skylon is a design for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (REL), using SABRE, a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket propulsion system, potentially reusable for 200 flights. In paper studies, the cost per kilogram of payload carried to low earth orbit in this way is hoped to be re...
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[tower] The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain. A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, `It had no visible means of support`. == Constr...
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Skylon. Image courtesy of Adrian Mann A British design for a space plane intended to improve upon that of HOTOL. It stems from the work of engineers at Reaction Engines, a company formed in the early 1990s to continue work on HOTOL after the project was officially cancelled. Reaction Engines we...
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