| OT: Nasa goto Mach 5! [message #74573] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 08:10   |
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NukeIt15
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Registered: February 2003
Location: Out to lunch
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Mach 5 is old news...they did that way back when they were using the X-15 rocket plane. Which, by the way, also managed to reach altitudes that qualified its pilots for astronaut wings. It was launched from a B-52 and landed like a conventional plane. I forget what the speed record was for that thing, but I don't think it's been reached or broken until now.
Oh, 'scuse me, that's for powered flight...the shuttle goes much, much faster on re-entry.
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