MrChips posted:

Joe Walker's 354,200 foot (unofficial) altitude record was broken by SpaceShipOne in 2004; they hit 367,450 feet.

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"That famous and secret branch designed and built the SR-71 Blackbird in 18 months. I touched on that with Beaverworks to assert that we as Canadians can, if we choose, to build the Super Arrow prototype, in the same time period.

This aircraft is the result of a fusion between the Avro Arrow and the designs for the YF-23 built by Northrop, F-35, F-22, CF-18, B-1 Lancer and B-2. The Super Arrow is a large bird. She has a 17m wing span and is designed for a multi-role platform. She is an interceptor first, fighter/bomber second and is also designed for close air support for our troops on the ground.

We are working on sourcing our logistics and supply chains to produce a realistic proposal to submit if requested. We envision that any realistic proposal would be submitted on or after January 1, 2017.

Sagebrush posted:

Notice that the white ones come in all sizes and shapes, the yellow one is the smallest, and the black one is the biggest and puts everything else there to shame.

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Look at the picture above.

It’s a 8” x 10” frame of a 16 mm gun film shot which shows an F-15 Eagle locked through an F-14 Tomcat Head Up Display, at 250 feet, with piper on the Eagle’s pilot, gun selected, master arm on.

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BLACK SEA (Sept. 9, 2014) A Ukrainian navy Beriev Be-12 participates in exercise Sea Breeze 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Herman/Released)

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The huge compass rose on Rogers Dry Lake formed a backdrop for a genuine National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) P-51D Mustang owned and flown by William C. Allmon. Mr. Allmon flew the plane during a visit to the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in California's Mojave Desert Sept. 15, 2000 for a reunion of former NACA employees.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Question: What

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Space shuttle Discovery is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member as the shuttle approaches the International Space Station during STS-133 rendezvous and docking operations. Docking occurred at 2:14 p.m. (EST) on Feb. 26, 2011. ISS026-E-037208 (26 Feb. 2011) #nasa #sts133 #Discovery #space

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SeaborneClink posted:

Godspeed little float-arrow!

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“For your information, we have also provided similar cost data on the A-10 aircraft,” states an unclassified memo War Is Boring obtained from the Air Force Historical Research Agency. “The estimated cost to make 275 A-10s nuclear capable is $15.9 million.”

Bondematt posted:

Does anyone have a recording of the Press Conference? Google is just giving me poo poo.

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-The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet that crashed in the French Alps deliberately forced the plane into the descent that led to the disaster, the prosecutor said. He pressed a button that accelerated the Airbus A320’s descent when alone in the cockpit. “It was a voluntary action,” Robin said.
-The co-pilot – named by the prosecutor as Andreas Lubitz, 28, a German citizen – was alone because the pilot had gone to the toilet. When he returned, the co-pilot refused to open the door. “The intention was to destroy this plane,” he said.
-Lubitz was breathing normally at the point of impact, the prosecutor reveals. He said nothing during the final descent, which lasted about 10 minutes. “Absolute silence inside the cockpit. Nothing, no word during the last 10 minutes.”
-There was no indication that Lubitz’s actions amounted to terrorism, Robin said. But he stopped short of declaring it suicide, saying only that was a “legitimate” question to ask.
-Cries could be heard just before the impact, the prosecutor said. “The death would have been sudden, immediate.”
-Air traffic controllers attempted to contract the plane in the last few minutes before the crash but received no reply from the cockpit.
-Robin said he had briefed the families of the dead.

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The cockpit flight recorder showed that the pilot repeatedly knocked and tried to get back in as the plane went into its fatal descent, French prosecutors said.

However, Bild reported that he also tried using an axe to break down the cockpit's armoured door.