Posted on 09/29/2015 6:47:17 AM PDT by C19fan
On a night apparently in early September, at a flight test center somewhere in China, a dark-painted airplane reportedly took off on a momentous mission—to fly faster than five times the speed of sound then return safely to Earth.
The airborne experiment, allegedly involving a manned aircraft with a human pilot aboard, marked a huge leap forward for China as it competes with the United States to develop warplanes and missiles capable of so-called “hypersonic” flight—so fast that they’re almost impossible to shoot down or dodge.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Did it melt?
Is the pilot 18 minutes younger ?
Most likely stolen technology.
Not to worry. Dorkbama the Muslim has a “crack” team at Edwards AFB making sure that there are enough gays and reansvestitesnon base.
Are we talking about the downward dive of their stock market?
:: Is the pilot 18 minutes younger? ::
Depends; was his flight path East or West?
He could be 36 minutes older...?
The klintoons must be after more campaign "contributions".
That was my reaction as well.
I’ve seen the pics of the X-15 after the high speed flight where it started to melt. Not pretty. Iirc it as determined that there needed to be a quantum jump in materials science to reach and sustain that kind of speed.
I really doubt the ChiComs are there, or if they are they’re reaching a level where we’ve already been for a while.
The big question if a he took off and a she landed.
In a society where conformity is reverred, there is little incentive to 'think out of the box'. Innovation is discouraged.
That is one of the reasons why the ChiComs are so good at 'reverse engineering', .. rather than inventive thinking.
Steal technology while we have Open Borders ?
Why invest in Research and Developement when the ChiComs have full armies of IT Teckies who can hack the intel of countries who have already tested inventions
and those countries who have already expended energy and monies into R&D , thus saving monies for more aggressivecforms of conquest.
Nah, they bought it from ET fair and square
Why do you think China has been buying all that gold?
We've given them access to the best educational opportunities here and elsewhere in the world, just as we and the world have built our best manufacturing facilities there.
Whatever the industry, company, product or level of technology, the very latest and greatest is being manufactured in China.
There is little or no reason to doubt their ability to design and build whatever they can conceive. If not now, then soon. Possibly by later today or probably by tomorrow.
It's foolish to misunderestimate the Chinese.
I very much respect their martial arts, among other things, and I just bet they're full of surprises.
Hmmm I wonder where and how they got that technology?
Is the answer "Bernie Schwartz", "Loral" and "Clinton"???
“You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3.”
— Paul Crickmore SR-71 jockey
The airplane first set speed records in the Mach 4-6 range with Mach 4.43 on March 7, 1961; Mach 5.27 on June 23, 1961; Mach 6.04 on November 9, 1961; and Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967. It also set an altitude record of 354,200 feet (67 miles) on August 22, 1963, and provided an enormous wealth of data on hypersonic air flow, aerodynamic heating, control and stability at hypersonic speeds, reaction controls for flight above the atmosphere, piloting techniques for reentry, human factors, and flight instrumentation. The highly successful program contributed to the development of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo piloted spaceflight programs as well as the Space Shuttle program. The program’s final flight was performed on October 24, 1968.
http://history.nasa.gov/x15/cover.html
Mach 6.7 on October 3, 1967 ... that was 48 years ago ...
Today??
X-15 is not airbreathing at hypersonic. Not really a valid comparison.
They Ef’ing stole it, that’s how. I was a hypersonic designer in the 90’s. I thought by now we would be streaking across the sky like a meteor. We have senior Bush to thank for not accomplishing that task. By 1995 we had already conquered 3 of the 6 enabling technologies. Our government, what a piece of work. Reading this disgust me to no end.
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