As I remember, didn't you say you worked on the Roton Project? Could you please take a look at my rough sketch above and tell me what you think. I never did like the Delta Clipper idea of relying on the ships engine to land with. If it cut out, it's a long way down. The Roton's means of landing was very intriguing, but I wondered about deploying the rotors at such high speed. The way I see it, my design uses the best of concepts of both designs plus some from the shuttle.

The ship re-enters on its side, kinda like a lifting body, then turns its bottom towards the ground. At a certain altitude it fires it's main engine to break its fall, then when the craft slows enough, it deploys the rotor blades and flies down. What do you think?

Lee (Damn it Jim, I'm a dreamer, not an engineer)