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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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To: Chode
I dimly recall there was worry about clearing the F-104 "T" tail, hence the scary downward thing. Also something about "spurs" that pulled the pilot's legs back just before ejection.
Poor guys, flying a plane and having that sort of ejection in the back of your mind.
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04/05/2018 5:14:16 PM PDT
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doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: doorgunner69
worry about clearing the F-104 “T” tail,
that’d do it
thank God for Martin Baker
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posted on
04/05/2018 5:25:42 PM PDT
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Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: Chode
Think the early 104 was called a Widow Maker due to the pilots not making it out or other flight issues.
Looked for some X-3 stuff, and sure as hell, it had a downward ejection setup. Even had an electric seat lift to put the pilot in the cockpit from underneath!
Well, it WAS an "X plane" after all. A lot of wacky things got tried out.
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posted on
04/05/2018 7:23:28 PM PDT
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doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: Red Badger
"Sonic booms are created when an aircraft exceeds the speed of sound,..." This is wrong. Sonic booms are created when the a/c exceeds the lower critical mach number, which often is more than 100 mph below the speed of sound.
To: Red Badger
I thought Bose was known for developing things with a higher “boom” factor...;-}
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04/06/2018 2:59:10 AM PDT
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trebb
(I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
To: trebb
They are into the Science of Sound. They can make it big and they can make it small.................
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04/06/2018 6:44:37 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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