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All Sonic, No Boom (Quiet Supersonic Transport)
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| Eric Hagerman
Posted on 03/29/2007 8:41:56 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster
It's amazing they can do something like this, but as a layman those small wings make me nervous.
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posted on
03/30/2007 4:33:27 AM PDT
by
Vision
("Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart's desires." Psalm37:4)
To: Terriergal
Speaking of charlatan preacher's made me think of Al Gore for some reason. I bet he will be among the first to get one.
To: tanuki
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posted on
03/30/2007 9:03:37 AM PDT
by
null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
To: Vision
"... as a layman those small wings make me nervous.: The small ones in front? They are called "canards". They are actually are safer. When speed decreases toward a stall condition, they stall first, the nose dips down, speed picks up -- and you're flying safely again. (The rear wings are the main lifting surfaces...)
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posted on
03/30/2007 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: TXnMA
Yea, but even the rear wings don't seem that large. Just IMHO.
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posted on
03/30/2007 2:53:14 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart's desires." Psalm37:4)
To: TigerLikesRooster
From the
Skunk Works, eh? That has gotta make one wonder just what it is we have that is loaded with stealth technology -- plus -- is audibly "stealthy" like this -- that is zipping along undetected at many Mach over the heads of those who would wish us ill...
I just know we didn't shut down the SR-71s -- without something much better already in operation!
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posted on
03/30/2007 2:56:10 PM PDT
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TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: Sundog
As opposed to supersonic speeds:
Bensen X-25 Gyrocopter
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:49:36 PM PDT
by
Blue Highway
("History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~ Sir Winston Churchill)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
03/30/2007 5:52:57 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: Paleo Conservative
FYI: for the barely-audible diffused N-wave poof-list
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posted on
03/30/2007 6:08:59 PM PDT
by
raygun
(Freepmail me if you're in need of April 13, 2028, 2034-38 catastrophic asteroid insurance.)
To: Kent1957
well sure! He has to go over and campaign for the Peace Prize!
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posted on
03/31/2007 2:17:45 PM PDT
by
Terriergal
("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
To: Sundog
One of the doc channels interviewed a former crewman: "...and in half an hour, we were turning around at the Canadian border to go back to Edwards..."
To: Calvin Locke
They should have built a hundred of them.
The intel that Russia had finished and used a new SAM to shoot down Gary Powers was bogus.
Wikipedia still has it wrong that he was shot down by a SAM.
A JATO unit affixed to a soviet jet gave it the boost to reach him and the near collission collapsed a wing of the U-2.
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:47:55 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(We are all counting down the days.)
To: Sundog
Let's face it nobody has ever built anything nearly as "Bad Ass" as the Valkyrie and the name to go with it.
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posted on
03/31/2007 8:56:28 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
To: Sundog
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posted on
03/31/2007 9:32:22 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(We are all counting down the days.)
To: Boiler Plate
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posted on
03/31/2007 9:48:13 PM PDT
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Sundog
(We are all counting down the days.)
To: Sundog
One thing that doesn't really show up in these fantastic pictures is how high it stands on the ground. The last time I was Wright Patterson, they had the SR71 parked under it's main wing. It must be 12 15 feet from the the floor to the bottom of the fuselage. Truly impressive.
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posted on
04/01/2007 4:49:25 PM PDT
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Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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