Subject	That's a bit misleading at best, wrong at worst.
Posted by	Marshall on March 29, 2004 at 12:21 AM
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In Reply To	Long standing SR-71 air speed record fell yesterday :[ posted by Wingnuttzx(NY) on March 28, 2004 at 10:34 PM
Message	The SR-71 was a real jet that took off with a pilot at the controls and cruised for thousands of miles, then landed. This thing was air launched on a large rocket, and once it hit Mach 5+ its engine kicked in for 10 seconds, burning 2 lbs of fuel. The craft's engine did not accelerate the craft up to that speed, the rocket did. If you going to compare an unpiloted drone to the SR-71, then you'd have to say that the SR-71's record fell in the 1960's, when the ramjet powered D-21 drones were tested. They were launched from modified SR-71's, called M-21's.
Follow Ups	Long standing SR-71 air speed record fell yesterday :[ - Wingnuttzx(NY) 22:34:42 03/28/04 man..."or about a mile and a half per second" geez (n/m) - Red ZX (SoCal) 23:01:21 03/28/04 Dahhmmm... (n/m) - projzxr 23:08:20 03/28/04 Re: Long standing SR-71 air speed record fell yesterday :[ - richk 23:29:45 03/28/04 Its scramjet, not rocket. But it was un-manned. (n/m) - Guapo 23:35:41 03/28/04 Re: Its scramjet, not rocket. But it was un-manned. - richk 23:40:35 03/28/04 You could probably make the case that it was a rocket. - Marshall 00:28:56 03/29/04 That's a bit misleading at best, wrong at worst. - Marshall 00:21:46 03/29/04 What was the purpose of the drones? Very interesting. (n/m) - Jackie 00:25:28 03/29/04 Presumably to fly over high risk areas. - Marshall 00:32:24 03/29/04 wow that thing is awesome - Red ZX (SoCal) 00:30:23 03/29/04 no, I found them on the net. - Marshall 00:33:27 03/29/04 I like the X-15 too. (n/m) - ZBlacktt 00:32:25 03/29/04 2nd on all points. (n/m) - BigTDogg (MA) 10:32:41 03/29/04 A 12-foot-long unmanned experimental aircraft( key word ) - ZBlacktt 00:29:42 03/29/04 great stuff, but the *manned* record still stands (n/m) - robo (sebring1970) 01:49:54 03/29/04 Wow (n/m) - ZSKI (Initial Z (TM)) 07:55:51 03/29/04
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