And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hopefully the tech for suppressing the sonic booms makes its way to commercial aircraft soon. Would love to have some 5-hour flights from LA to Sydney like in cyberpunk literature.
I think this is the YF-12 interceptor prototype. The chine has a chisel edge that starts where the radome ends and the wing mounted pods simulate the weight and drag of the missiles. Al_in_Ottawa
The plan was to launch three AIM-47 missiles in quick succession to create a "salvo spread" (think torpedoes) that created a wall of three explosions of 500,000 lbs of TNT each. This would lower the encouragement of Soviet bombers flying over the North Pole to bomb us.
In age, this aircraft is closer to the Wright Bros first flight than it is to today.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the tech for suppressing the sonic booms makes its way to commercial aircraft soon. Would love to have some 5-hour flights from LA to Sydney like in cyberpunk literature.
ReplyDeleteI think this is the YF-12 interceptor prototype. The chine has a chisel edge that starts where the radome ends and the wing mounted pods simulate the weight and drag of the missiles.
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and designed using a slide rule (not by DEI hires....).
ReplyDeleteShut up already clown
DeleteTruth hurts.
DeleteSpoken like a person that doesn't have a clue about slip-sticks.
DeleteWe went from having engineers that could do differential equations in their head to graduating seniors where only 30% are proficient in basic math.
DeleteThe plan was to launch three AIM-47 missiles in quick succession to create a "salvo spread" (think torpedoes) that created a wall of three explosions of 500,000 lbs of TNT each. This would lower the encouragement of Soviet bombers flying over the North Pole to bomb us.
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