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Title: This will not end well Post by Stimpy - FSO on 01/13/12 at 13:35:48 2,000mph car made from bits of space planes and nuclear missiles One man's mission to ;D ;D ;D too funny http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-0-0F72050C00000578-266_634x328.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-0-0F72050100000578-468_634x442.jpg ...um, WHERE exactly does one get orbiter and misile parts from? ...ebay? (all engineering talent aside, sharp as a marble that one, darn! ;D ) HOW SONIC SPEED COMPARES... 100mph: Suzuki Savage, downhill and with Lancer-kit, the coolest production motorcycle. 194mph: Suzuki Hayabusa, the fastest production motorcycle. 267.856mph: Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, the fastest production car. 614mph: Maximum speed of Boeing 747-400 passenger jet. 763mph: Current land speed record, Briton Andy Green ThrustSSC. 1,350mph: Maximum speed of Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde. 2,000mph: Proposed top speed of the Sonic Wind LSRV. 2,275mph: Maximum speed of the SR-71 Blackbird. 4,519mph: X-15, the fastest non-orbital aircraft. 18,000mph: Space Shuttle top orbital speed. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086232/Waldo-Stakess-bid-break-land-speed-record-2-000mph-car.html#ixzz1jNNdrQvP ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonus section Anyone remember this? Amazing photogpaphs! United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 – collide on December 16, 1960, NYC. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086028/Photos-1960-Brooklyn-airline-crash-sparked-new-era-black-boxes.html#ixzz1jNOgDo5z http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/13/article-0-0F701B3000000578-393_964x666.jpg btw, THIS is what a plane wreck looks like, unlike those 911 wrecks. |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by built2last66 on 01/13/12 at 14:07:02 If he puts a little bit of Sea Foam in the gas tank he'll be able to idle better before he attempts the world record... |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by Stimpy - FSO on 01/13/12 at 14:15:32 4E594540581E404D5F581A1A2C0 wrote:
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ...and so the sea foam war continues, lol |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by verslagen1 on 01/13/12 at 14:43:17 I don't know who's going to lite that candle, but I hope to watch. 8-) |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by built2last66 on 01/13/12 at 17:56:55 082F32362B225B0 wrote:
That was just a little joke :D (and now he's jest jokin' about lighting off Sea Foam WWIII) |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by Boofer on 01/13/12 at 21:09:07 Stimp, I take issue with the SR-71 top speed. 2275 looks correct as long as you add, "as far as we know". ;D We have one about 90 miles away at Huntsville Al Space museum. I thought they were going to arrest me for fondling an airplane. And the X-15 has always been a favorite. It still holds the speed record over the shuttle in its classification. I believe it set that record in 1967. I remember when Life magazine had crash photos and all kinds of stuff when I was a kid in the 60's. It made an impression on me. I go to the antique store here and buy Life mags as birthday gifts. You can get one in the same week as people's b'day. They love looking at styles and prices of the week they were born. Always a hit. :) |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by built2last66 on 01/13/12 at 22:56:08 Quote:
aha :D |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by verslagen1 on 01/14/12 at 09:40:07 both planes can fly fast enough to melt the skin right off it's own back. |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by Toymaker on 01/15/12 at 04:57:05 speak of the SR-71, there ae many, many things STILL classified about that craft. Top speed is one of them. Also, did you all realize that the early pilots of the '71 use to get their ASTRONAUT wings...until the top brass figured out that we were giving the Russians top secret info in awarding them?...ah....my days at "NASA?" T |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by Jerry Eichenberger on 01/16/12 at 10:34:10 Toymaker - I think the X-15 pilots also got astronaut wings, didn't they? Wasn't the requirement to fly an aircraft (spacecraft) at least to 100,000 feet in altitude? While the SR-71 was a great airplane, I don't think it went that high, did it? At 100,000 there is so little air that a jet engine of any variant would have a hard time maintianing combustion. I have a nephew who was a crew chief on one, maybe I'll ask him if he can tell me. |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by Toymaker on 01/16/12 at 12:14:44 Jerry, yep that 71 would and did go that high...As for how fast.....all I can say is when they were flying over Red China, the Chicoms would fire s/a rockets...and before they reached altitude, the 71's were landing at Kadena. :) |
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Title: Re: This will not end well Post by arteacher on 01/16/12 at 15:37:09 True SR71 humor: An SR71 pilot requested clearance to 60,000 feet of an air traffic controller (I forget where) and the controller, who had had less than a stellar day, asked in a snarky tone "How the heck do you intent to get up that high" The pilot replied "I am requesting clearance DOWN to 60,000." ;D |
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