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By the time you finish reading this sentence, the Falcon HTV-2, the fastest plane ever built, could have flown 18 miles. It would get from London to Sydney in less than an hour, while withstanding temperatures of almost 2,000C, hotter than the melting point of steel.
US military to launch fastest-ever plane | World news | The Guardian
The United States is so bad ass.
Halfway around the planet in less than an hour. Incredible.
US military to launch fastest-ever plane | World news | The Guardian
The United States is so bad ass.
Halfway around the planet in less than an hour. Incredible.
Innumerable applications for something like this.Halfway around the planet in less than an hour. Incredible.
By being Manly.How can you ride in this thing and not automatically **** your pants when it hits full speed?
How can you ride in this thing and not automatically **** your pants when it hits full speed?
Yeah, one would think you'd be plastered to the wall.
The Falcon started life in 2003, part of a US military research project to build a plane that could reach (and potentially deliver bombs to) any part of the world in less than an hour.
How can you ride in this thing and not automatically **** your pants when it hits full speed?
How many poor bastards died for that thing?
How many poor bastards died for that thing?
The theory of relativity....you only feel the acceleration, not the steady state speed.
It is an unmanned aircraft.
Indeed - doesn't mean people didn't die ot bring it about. Anytime there's experimental **** being conceived and constructed someone takes a les sthan grand exit in secret.
How long does it take to get to top speed?
Seems like if you floored it, your brain would be flattened in the back of your head to the thickness of a sheet of paper.
Of course, it never seemed to bother Hans and Chewy.
Indeed - doesn't mean people didn't die ot bring it about. Anytime there's experimental **** being conceived and constructed someone takes a les sthan grand exit in secret.
It is just a typical solid state rocket that launches it into a suborbital path where it uses a scram-jet to accelerate to the faster speed. You are probably looking at 10-15 minutes from being on the pad to top speed. But, since it is unmanned, that isn't a factor.
because it's the acceleration that ****s with you, technically the right time to **** your pants would be before it hits full speed.
Yea, it just amazes me that a human would be able to go through that acceleration and be fine afterwards. But I guess it's a moot point if it's unmanned.
US military to launch fastest-ever plane | World news | The Guardian
The United States is so bad ass.
It is an unmanned aircraft.
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