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Title: 3 min at Mach 6
Post by: Dragon on May 27, 2010, 02:56:47 PM

New record.  :rock


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The whole story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_sc/us_hypersonic_flight (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_sc/us_hypersonic_flight)

More info:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0527/Scramjet-powered-X-51A-Waverider-missile-breaks-Mach-6-record (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0527/Scramjet-powered-X-51A-Waverider-missile-breaks-Mach-6-record)

Title: Re: 3 min at Mach 6
Post by: Reschke on May 27, 2010, 04:45:42 PM

Too bad it wasn't manned...50 years ago they would have had some crazed PTSD war plane jock just cocky enough to give it a shot. Where are those men today!!!

Title: Re: 3 min at Mach 6
Post by: Yossarian on May 27, 2010, 05:08:23 PM

deleted nonsensical post

Title: Re: 3 min at Mach 6
Post by: saggs on May 27, 2010, 05:10:34 PM

Hmmmmmm. If they ever put guns on it, it'll have to be heavily perked.  :bolt:

Title: Re: 3 min at Mach 6
Post by: Plazus on May 27, 2010, 07:09:46 PM

Quote from: Reschke on May 27, 2010, 04:45:42 PM

Too bad it wasn't manned...50 years ago they would have had some crazed PTSD war plane jock just cocky enough to give it a shot. Where are those men today!!!

Could you imagine the amount of Gs youd have to endure as it accelerates? My face would be stretched out from one side of the seat to the other.  :lol