>technical bug
<man in the middle attack
>have it melted into a windmill
nice thought anon
Anon could see possibly a future generation being ok with seeing it on display in a museum.
But if they tried that today? Chaos would rain down upon the scene.
Call sign DEMON21. Unidentified aircraft over White Sands. Speed 532 knots. Just below 30K feet in altitude.
Highest speed seen on plot is 685 knots.
Military over military range. And there is a limited distance that a sonic boom can heard over. For a given altitude and speed. Chances are real good that none of the towns in the area are hearing the booms.
>T-38
Performance of the T-38 does not seem to jibe with 1,169 mph.
While the manual states that the aircraft is capable of approximately Mach 1.3, the aircraft is blasting across the practice area at an amazing clip, so you limit yourself to Mach 1.15 for 60 seconds or so, feeling out the stiff controls and analyzing how the airplane feels during a steep turn and an aileron roll. The far end of your reserved corridor of airspace is rapidly approaching, and you are out of room for anything more. You gingerly pull each throttle out of afterburner, one at a time to avoid a flameout, then raise the pitch to 10 degrees nose-high. Decelerating through Mach 1.0, you note the same brief fluctuations in the pitot-static instruments. And then it's over. You're back to the drab, plain world of subsonic – the world everyone else in the world lives in. The fuel gauges show that it's time to go home. You extend the speedbrakes and pull the throttles to idle, resulting in a descent rate of over 15,000 feet per minute at 300 knots.
http://www.warbirdalley.com/articles/t38pr.htm