It's specifically designed to shoot down missiles during their final stage of flight, and is expected to arrive on Guam within the next few weeks.
And, similar to Dyson, Lugg is proposing to achieve these radical efficiencies by coordinating multiple engine systems (analogous to the acceleration, inducement and entrainment of the Air Multiplier) to create optimal conditions for each stage of flight and to use the excess energy the system produces to create a plasma field to reduce drag and eliminate sonic boom.
It will use a balloon to carry its rocket on the first stage of its flight.
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Capt Easson was confronted with "an unenviable emergency at a critical stage of his flight".
Pending the outcome of a series of flight readiness meetings in the coming weeks, this successful flight sets the stage for the next Soyuz launch, planned for mid-November.
The decision on Thursday is likely to be merely the first stage before the first aircraft begins commercial flight in around 2005.
But at the halfway stage of his first season back in top-flight racing in nine years, Neil Hodgson admits it is proving a much taller order than he expected.
Indeed, McLeish himself had been involved in the discussions, with SPL sources stressing that all top-flight clubs had been in involved at some stage of the discussions to overhaul the whole of Scottish football.
"After a good flight of the solid boosters and core cryogenic stage, there was a problem with the upper stage and the desired orbit was not attained, " Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Marie Luton announced after the mission.
All went well and I was told that the next step was to interview with the head of the European business, possibly involving a flight to Madrid, certainly all very much final stage stuff.
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