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Silence, Please: Lockheed Aims to Build a Quieter Supersonic Airplane
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Posted on 04/05/2018 2:39:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:39:00 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
They should let Bose design it..................
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:43:38 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: BenLurkin
It looks more like a speedboat than an airplane.
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:44:33 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
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These guys could make it quiet..................
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:47:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: BenLurkin
Kind of light on forward visibility.
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:48:55 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
Maybe it has a periscope like the Spirit of St. Louis.
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:51:13 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: BenLurkin
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it either breaks the barrier or it doesn't.
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posted on
04/05/2018 2:55:53 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: Chode
Kind of looks like the old X-3. Stiletto I think it was called. Put under powered engines in it and hard a hard time going supersonic, looks be damned.
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posted on
04/05/2018 3:08:08 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: BenLurkin
What is the purpose / role for this plane? Will it be a testbed for designing future warplanes that have “stealth” sound capabilities?
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posted on
04/05/2018 3:08:24 PM PDT
by
corkoman
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/05/2018 3:09:14 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: doorgunner69
“Kind of looks like the old X-3.”
It does. Not too many remember the Stiletto. What is the purpose of this new plane or is it simply to test a design?
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posted on
04/05/2018 3:25:35 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
To: doorgunner69
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"looks be damned." yup
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posted on
04/05/2018 3:44:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: corkoman
“What is the purpose / role for this plane?”
Speculation but here’s a few ideas:
1. This helps to introduce the public to a technology that may already exist and is in use by the military.
2. It’s an impossible technology but we’re going to let the Russians and Chinese steal it so they can waste billions trying to perfect it.
3. The tech exists and this story sends a warning to Russia and China that supersonic stealth aircraft have been flying around their skies and there isn’t diddly they can do about it.
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:00:49 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: Chode
One of the first plastic models I built was the X-3. Thought it was the most cool looking airplane I had seen.
Did not find out it was a gutless wonder with inertia coupling issues until decades later.
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:08:52 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: doorgunner69
Its time to figure this out. It takes as long to fly to Europe as it did 1962. The concord sorta worked but the problems made it unsuitable, there must be way to do this.
To: gibsonguy
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Easy!
Just don’t go to U-rope.
.
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:21:01 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: doorgunner69
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inertia coupling = double plus ungood...
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:21:24 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: Chode
Assuming I ever knew, but getting out of the X-3 in an emergency looked chancy with no canopy, etc. Think the early F-104 had downward ejection, mebbe the X-3 did too.
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:47:42 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: doorgunner69
Had a model of X-3.
X-15 still holds records.
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:48:51 PM PDT
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
To: doorgunner69
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damn... wonder how many punched down and lived to tell the tale?
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posted on
04/05/2018 4:56:59 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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