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To: Red Badger; blackdog
..delta wing at slow speeds and swept wings at hyperspeeds......

Tooling about at max cruise is the easy part.

Getting to/from max cruise is the happy land of "All you have to do is..." where the weary throng of engineers labor to make the grand dreams of others become a bit closer to fact.

Been retired from that business for long enough now that I don't even feel sorrow when I see one of these click bait media announcements.

111 posted on 07/13/2025 8:20:18 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

Agreed. Every time I hear about drones, all I can think about is a 30KT crosswind component and IFR conditions.


112 posted on 07/13/2025 8:27:23 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

I have several hundred hours in the MU-2. Transition phases of flight are real squirrely. Don’t blink too long.


113 posted on 07/13/2025 8:30:15 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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