In the context of mobile apps, almost every platform has a repository where users can download both free and paid apps. You can also install additional apps for your kids upon request via email, and a similar system for paid-for content too. Sarno, David. “Apps are Helping Smartphones Become Digital Wallets.” LA Times. The pilot feels about 3 g’s — eyeballs in, as we call it; your back is feeling three times the weight of your whole body — and so, pretty strong acceleration going up. From there we drop the spaceship off of the White Knight and it glides for 10 seconds while the pilot sets up, gets the aircraft all trimmed up, ready for the rocket boost and he throws the switch, and the hybrid rocket motor in the SpaceShipOne accelerates the pilot at about two to three times normal gravity. The motor stops burning at that point, but now the ship is moving over 2,000 miles per hour, straight out, and so it coasts. When the motor shuts off, now there’s drag on the vehicle but no thrust, so you fly forward in your seat belts until they’re holding you out there in space; otherwise you’d be flying through the front window and out the front of the craft.

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In the next section, we’ll look at the design of the White Knight craft that assists SpaceShipOne on its journey. We’ll also look at the details of the design, the propulsion system, and the privately funded space program that spawned it all. The White Knight is a turbofan-powered airplane that carries the SpaceShipOne up to 45 to 50,000 feet so that we can start our space flight from a relatively high position in the atmosphere where the air’s already pretty thin. We’re through about 85 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere already when we go down 45,000 feet. The pilot experiences between about 5 or 6 g’s of deceleration as he comes back into the atmosphere. If the craft starts to fall back into the atmosphere, picking up speed, it reaches just about zero speed at the top and picks up more and more speed. And then he starts to fall back in, and he falls, he falls along the same parabolic or ballistic trajectory that he would if he were just a rock. So you’re suspended in your seatbelts at that point, and that’s for maybe 5 or so seconds, and then you kinda fall down into the seat.

And that slows it down. You can always click and hold down a key to check whether the keyboard is comfortable. And he rides that down to about 50,000 feet or so, maybe 60,000 feet, where he flips the switch to turn it back into a normal airplane with a tail and trail it where it’s supposed to be. And so you’ve still got that while he’s heading up, and so he starts and that takes about 15 seconds for that feather, as we’ll call it, the back half of the craft to go up about 65 degrees. And as it starts falling into the thicker and thicker air, this jack-knife craft presents its whole belly, just like a belly flop straight onto the air flow to give itself a large cross-sectional area that it’s trying to drive through the air to decelerate it. The air is very rarified up at that altitude so it’s a great place to start from.