Air Force Launches Hypersonic Glider Over Pacific

WLBT ^ | Apr 23, 2010

[nickcarraway]

The Air Force has launched an experimental hypersonic glider able to travel more than 4,000 miles in 30 minutes over the Pacific Ocean.

The 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base says a Minotaur 4 rocket carrying the glider blasted off Thursday afternoon from the central California coast. The Air Force statement does not reveal the result of the test involving the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.

A fact sheet from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says the vehicle was to be accelerated into the upper atmosphere, separate from its booster and glide across the Pacific at 13,000 mph.

Thirty minutes and 4,100 miles later it was to crash and sink near Kwajalein Atoll, some 2,100 miles southwest of Hawaii.

[GeronL]

It was supposed to crash and sink?

good thing our government would never consider wasting mnoney. Should have been recoverable.

[nickcarraway]

Now it’s spying on fish.

[GeronL]

Its all a cover up for an alien ship landing at the Atoll to meet with Obama this weekend. He will bow to them and let them take over the world.

[CodeToad]

Kwaj usually recovers such items. Kwaj is an instrumentation site( 75 miles x 15 miles actually) with over 26 sensors used in such tests to track by radar, record telemetry data, and record optics. It also has splash detection radars used to pinpoint the location of the objects for recovery operations.

[TSgt]

Its all a cover up for an alien ship landing at the Atoll to meet with Obama this weekend. He will bow to them and let them take over the world.

[GeronL]

Oh no... they opened a Stargate on the Atoll?

[TSgt]

I never knew this about the Nation of Islam, they are a kooky bunch.

Louis Farrakhan, describes the "Motherplane" thus: “ The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us of a giant Motherplane that is made like the universe, spheres within spheres. White people call them unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Ezekiel, in the Old Testament, saw a wheel that looked like a cloud by day but a pillar of fire by night. The Hon. Elijah Muhammad said that that wheel was built on the island of Nippon, which is now called Japan, by some of the original scientists. It took 15 billion dollars in gold at that time to build it. It is made of the toughest steel. America does not yet know the composition of the steel used to make an instrument like it. It is a circular plane, and the Bible says that it never makes turns. Because of its circular nature it can stop and travel in all directions at speeds of thousands of miles per hour. He said there are 1,500 small wheels in this mother wheel which is a half mile by a half mile (800 by 800 m). This Mother Wheel is like a small human built planet. Each one of these small planes carry three bombs.

[IYAS9YAS]

Thirty minutes and 4,100 miles later

8,200 miles per hour? YeeHaw!

[Liberty Valance]

Was this related to the Air Force launch from Cape Canaveral yesterday?

he Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 7:52 p.m. EDT as the sun set at Cape Canaveral. See our photo gallery from pad cameras. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

[Waverunner]

yep it’s under the fairing - Just for kicks, how much energy is released when a hypersonic glider going 13000+ mph slams into an iranain underground fuel reproccessing facility. Assume the glider is loaded out with depleted uranium for maximium kinetic energy load. Just thinking - what if?

[GeronL]

lol

[TSgt]

I like the way you think but doubt they would use that type of launch vehicle for such a thing...

[katana]

Nice work, but you forgot to add the real life belly fat and skinny guy lazy ass love handles.

[Mr. Lucky]

You know, that little thing would be scootin’ right along at about 7 times the velocity of a shell out of the main gun of an Iowa Class battleship.