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New aircraft speed record by NASA (who else) . . .
Posted: 22 Nov 2004, 13:34
by boganbusman
On the 16th of November, NASA once again broke the speed record with it's experimental Scramjet engine. This is taken from the How Stuff Works website:
How Stuff Works wrote:NASA's experimental space plane, the X-43A, set a new speed record for aircraft on November 16, 2004. In the unmanned test flight, the plane reached Mach 10 -- 10 times the speed of sound, or about 6,600 miles (10,600 kilometers) per hour. This flight broke the previous speed record of Mach 7, set in March 2004 by the X-43A in a previous test flight.
Amazing.
See the HowStuffWorks article
HERE
Posted: 22 Nov 2004, 14:28
by jemc
swet
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 02:52
by flatblacksleeper
I am so close to getting that fast in my car
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But that is extrememly amazing
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 13:21
by Dr-CiviC
10 times the sound barrior AMAZING imagen if they made a jet that could farpass the speed of light
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 13:48
by Kilkenny
Dr-CiviC wrote:10 times the sound barrior AMAZING imagen if they made a jet that could farpass the speed of light
That would mean that timetravell would be possible
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 13:53
by boganbusman
Pfffffft. Time travel is bullsh*t.
But it would be pretty cool to go that fast . . .
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 23:04
by EmptyWords
and light is mach3???
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 23:45
by T-Shine
No, the light would be Mach 900000 or something like that, heheh. I actually think timetravelling is quite interesting.
Posted: 23 Nov 2004, 23:51
by EmptyWords
lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10
Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 02:45
by boganbusman
The speed of light is 300 000 kilometers per second or 186 000 miles per second.
Which is a lot faster than Mach 10.
Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 05:18
by Dr-CiviC
there goes boganbusman with his tecnical mumbo jumo
Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 05:20
by boganbusman
What is so technical about the speed of light?
Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 05:52
by Dr-CiviC
just a joke dude
Posted: 24 Nov 2004, 16:17
by PSZeTa
EmptyWords wrote:lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10
So where did you get that from..
Posted: 25 Nov 2004, 04:28
by boganbusman
PSZeTa wrote:EmptyWords wrote:lol.. well since .. light is 3 times faster than sound.. and sound is mach 1.. i thought light was mach3.. ah well. thats still preety damn fast.. mach10
So where did you get that from..
From his a** lol.
And yes, Mach 10 is very damn fast . . . about 12,250 km/h or 7,612 mp/h.
Posted: 25 Nov 2004, 23:52
by ViperJay
oh, I'm so sad about that...I thinked I made a new record, but now I see that the poor mach 9 of my peugeot 206 isn't enough....
Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 01:56
by EmptyWords
its kind of a stupid thing, forget it