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To: noiseman

...wouldn’t even be capable of Mach 1. Look at the straight as a board wings! And the equally unswept horizontal stabilizer.

The USAF X-15 which reached a speed of Mach 6.7:

35 posted on 05/01/2023 4:51:53 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits

To: T.B. Yoits

That was a rocket plane. No jet engines. I’m no pilot, but I had a plastic model of one as kid.

36 posted on 05/01/2023 5:06:00 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)

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