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X-51 Waverider: Hypersonic jet ambitions fall short
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| 15 August 2012
| Sharon Weinberger
Posted on 08/15/2012 11:23:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:23:55 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:24:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:26:18 AM PDT
by
MestaMachine
(obama kills)
To: BenLurkin
The WaveRider crashed by California? Some gnarly waves, dude.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:29:15 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: BenLurkin
It took Edison over 6,000 tries to get a light bulb to burn right.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:29:41 AM PDT
by
vet7279
To: BenLurkin
Assumed the test flight was unmanned.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:36:09 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: BenLurkin
Assumed the test flight was unmanned.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:36:26 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: BenLurkin
I hope the heck our Navy / Spec ops guys are looking for it...
Materials, Materials, Materials, do not let the ChiComs get their hands on what is left...
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:38:59 AM PDT
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:39:59 AM PDT
by
Rio
(Tempis fugit.)
To: BenLurkin
Thank you for the ping. I appreciate it.
Drat! Lost another one..., as far as we know. ;^)
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:42:29 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Nope 2012)
To: AU72
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:44:03 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
They need some better di-lithium cystals.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:44:36 AM PDT
by
DonkeyBonker
(Oppose Senate Amendment S.A. 2575! I need more than 10 rounds in my magazine.)
To: BenLurkin
Roll your window down at 50 MPH and stick your hand outside and wave the palm up and down. Now imagine doing that at 5 times th speed of sound.
Just a little wiggle from the guidance will send that thing into some crazy spin.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:45:00 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: vet7279
It took Edison over 6,000 tries to get a light bulb to burn right. Edison didn't have sophisticated computer modeling and hypersonic wind tunnels.
And it didn't cost taxpayers a billion dollars every time he tried.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:46:43 AM PDT
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: BenLurkin
Good thing it was BEFORE the flight began, because whatever they would have recovered woulddn’t have been very man-like after a hypersonic crash.
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:47:01 AM PDT
by
Pecos
("We hold these truths to be self-evident ..... ")
To: Pecos; AU72
You'd never know it from the breathless leads to these stories, but the prototype isn't big enough to put a person into anyway.
If you ask me....
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:50:44 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: DoughtyOne; All
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posted on
08/15/2012 11:59:36 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
You'd never know it from the breathless leads to these stories, but the prototype isn't big enough to put a person into anyway.
"What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?"
-- Derek Zoolander
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posted on
08/15/2012 12:03:51 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2898271/posts?page=119#119)
To: ZOOKER
And it didn't cost taxpayers a billion dollars every time he tried. True. Very true. Extremely true: It didn't cost the taxpayers anything because he was doing it on his own (well, with a team he paid for). Just like today, when most R & D that's worth doing is being done in the private sector.
Except for this mach-6 whirlygig.
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posted on
08/15/2012 12:07:48 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: ZOOKER
Understand. But I think we do need to give the some room for error. The things they are trying to do are not easy.
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posted on
08/15/2012 12:15:19 PM PDT
by
vet7279
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