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The Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team is delighted to announce today that a heavyweight team of postgraduate students from the University of Southampton will be tackling the design of our Vulture 2 spaceplane. Click here for a bigger version of the LOHAN graphic Regular readers will recall that we recently …

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  1. Braveheart24
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    South Uni climbs on board

    Payload to ISS next step?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    I get a warm fuzzy feeling...

    ... when I see such a breadth of engineering talent coming out of the UK universities.

    What a shame the twats in governments are forcing each student to pay £27k for the privilege, which is going to result in fewer rocket scientists which will stifle UK innovation.

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    1. Chris Miller
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      Never mind

      they'll be able to get highly paid City jobs predicting whether the next coin toss will be heads or tails.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    We have our own version of Big Bang Theory...

    I just wish David Cooper had a doctorate to complete this.......

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  4. Chazmon
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    @AC The funny thing about fees is that they are actually pushing more students towards the 'hard' subjects such as engineering and chemistry as they see the value in these courses.

    I have a BSc in chemistry and still think at £9000 a year it would have been a bargain given the contact hours and expertese I could draw upon. For a philosophy degree with 3 hours of lectures a week im less convinced as are prospective students up and down the country.

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  5. JonRussell

    That's cheating ...

    ... Everyone knows university boffins can build space planes.... It's much more fun watching journalist's try to do it ... ? :-)

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Any truth in the rumour?

    Any truth in the rumour that Portsmouth University is developing an anti-aircraft gun? :-)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Any truth in the rumour?

      Can we rename Lohan "The Scummer" ?

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    2. Sir Sham Cad
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      Portsmouth already have...

      Fort Nelson on standby and the type 45 destroyer (shush, Lewis) simulator at Qinetiq for target acquisition.

      With luck a few stray shells will "redevelop" the ward of Shirley, too.

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  7. Bassey

    Mixed feelings

    Whilst I join the others in positively glowing with pride that the UK is producing such engineering talent and am pleased to see such people anthusiastically jumping on LOHAN - I do wonder if the project is perhaps veering too far from its "Men in Sheds" ethos?

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    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge
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      Re: Mixed feelings

      Don't you worry - there's still plenty of hot LOHAN garden shed action to come...

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    You should relocate to the birth place of the harrier

    You need a suitable development site that looks like a bond laire and was the birthplace of the harrier so im told...

    http://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.283635,-0.809126&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=0

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  9. Victor Ludorum
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    Excellent news...

    As an alumnus of Soton, I for one welcome our PhD wielding rocket scientist overlords.

    Beer, well, I was a student once...

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  10. Dick

    I have to say

    Professor Jim looks REALLY happy to see you.

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  11. Anonymous Coward
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    "an experimental analysis of the flapping dynamics of a flag"

    Get that guy on the design team for the Vulture 11 lunar mission!

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  12. Frostbite
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    It's good to see Paul Heckles doing the flying, wish it was me :-)

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  13. Anonymous Coward
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    Yay, a real flying plane this time!

    Nice to see that this time round the 'plane' will be something other than a plane-shaped sycamore leaf...

    Thumbs down is over there --------->

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  14. Dave Bell

    What this project needs

    You can't be a proper aeronautical engineer from Southampton unless you've served an apprenticeship at a steam engine factory.

    And a piece of advice: "If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can't understand it, take it from me: it's all balls."

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      The first of the few

      From Wikipedia : "R.J. Mitchell ... gained an apprenticeship at Kerr Stuart & Co. of Fenton, a locomotive engineering works."

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  15. Stoneshop
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    I spot

    A geodetical design stiffening the hull of the plane in one of the photos on the second page.

    <-- one for Barnes Wallis

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