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Post by Jolly on Jan 15, 2018 13:23:18 GMT
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 15, 2018 15:28:07 GMT
Mach 5!!! Now, that's hauling tail.
I've never understood why they did away with the SR-71. I understand we've got satellites that can be redirected to wherever they want, but you'd think the SR-71 still had plenty of uses. Did they need the money for that white elephant F-35?
Now if they can only get that anti-gravity thingy to work.
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Post by sawmilljim on Jan 16, 2018 0:05:19 GMT
Mach 5!!! Now, that's hauling tail. I've never understood why they did away with the SR-71. I understand we've got satellites that can be redirected to wherever they want, but you'd think the SR-71 still had plenty of uses. Did they need the money for that white elephant F-35? Now if they can only get that anti-gravity thingy to work. Worse yet the gravity thingy is a theory, most fail to mention that part now days. Now if that fellow that built coral castle would talked things might been different. Or better yet if the money people hadn't stopped Nikola Tesla everyone might be enjoying free wireless electricity today . Those money folks just shut off his funding real fast J P Morgan for one . |
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 16, 2018 0:55:14 GMT
sawmilljim, Yeah, depending on who you read, Tesla was either a genius (we wouldn't have AC power without him), or a madman. I prefer genius. I've always thought that the vindictive Edison and Westinghouse destroyed him. That his notes and records were "stolen" tells a great deal.
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Post by sawmilljim on Jan 16, 2018 1:05:35 GMT
sawmilljim , Yeah, depending on who you read, Tesla was either a genius (we wouldn't have AC power without him), or a madman. I prefer genius. I've always thought that the vindictive Edison and Westinghouse destroyed him. That his notes and records were "stolen" tells a great deal. The big one that destroyed him was J P Morgan and that bunch . I have read everything about Tesla I could find . Now if I could just remember half of it . |
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Post by Jolly on Jan 17, 2018 13:23:58 GMT
Worked with a guy who used to be part of the ground crew on the Blackbird. The plane was a mess on the ground. They wouldn't fuel it up until the last minute, because it leaked like a sieve. They'd have to put stuff under the plane to catch all of the drips.
After it took off and started flying, the heat expanded the metal enough the plane quit leaking.
Once it landed, they'd try to pump the tanks out as fast as they could access them safely.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Jan 17, 2018 14:34:52 GMT
That was one fantastic machine, I watched a documentary on it some time ago, and one of the pilots talked about the engine flaming out over Tennessee, so he glide landed in Arizona.
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