I think I would have to change my pants after..
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Singlemalt
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What can it do in the quarter mile?
tyler.durden
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I'd have to change my socks afterward, if you know what I mean...
LOL She's empty.. Imagine what it takes to power one of those with all the passenger seats filled and cargo. I love watching the dragon lady climb outta PMD
doublejj
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LOL....that's a routine takeoff at John Wayne/Orange county airport. They take off straight up and then kill the engines after about 30seconds and glide for a minute two. something something noise abatment....the first time it happens you just know your going to crash....
That was where I learned to fly
and now they have whisper kits
Singlemalt
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Lockheed Airport was a few miles from my childhood home, I'd get to see U-2's taking off, a straight 90 degree and poof, out of site
cannabineer
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When I lived in Sunnyvale, the Nasa bird would launch out of Moffett. I watched her climb and climb in binos one day, until her angle of climb made the wings just disappear. Never did get to see her land.
Beale?
doublejj
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You know how close my farm is to BealeAFB. Don't let them them tell you they have "retired" the SR71. They are flying this thing all the time, especially at night. We can't see them, but we can sure as hell hear them....
LOL only Nasa flies the last three operational 71s now, you are hearing the 72 ::snicker::
*wait I could be wrong, it is possibly one of our last 6 U2s
PS why are they so f'ing dumb to cloak visually and not sound when they can do both? sigh.....
Singlemalt
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Moffet Field home of Ames and CANG, Mountain View/Sunnyvale area
I know moffet and mather but the spooks fly from beale
doublejj
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I doubt they care if I hear it....it's the other end...lol
They come out of here, Edwards and Palmdale Det 42, all the time visually cloaked but roaring like wounded lions
BarnBuster
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LM's Hypersonic "SR-72"
"One of 2017’s biggest defense and aviation stories is the anonymous sighting by a “handful of witnesses” of the landing of a mysterious, unidentified new aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 Production Flight Test Facility in Palmdale California. What was it?
Aviation Week reporter Guy Norris scooped the story but was guarded in his reporting of sources. On September 27, 2017 Norris wrote:
“According to information provided to Aviation Week, one such technology demonstrator, believed to be an unmanned subscale aircraft, was observed flying into the U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 at Palmdale, where Skunk Works is headquartered. The vehicle, which was noted landing in the early hours at an unspecified date in late July, was seen with two T-38 escorts. Lockheed Martin declined to comment directly on the sighting.”"
http://blog.executivebiz.com/2017/12/lockheed-martin-breaks-silence-on-hypersonic-sr-72-blackbirds-successor-aircraft/
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/sr-72-hypersonic-demonstrator-aircraft/
https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/12/the-enigmatic-sr-72-and-the-palmdale-sightings-what-do-they-tell-us-about-americas-secret-hypersonic-program/
"One of 2017’s biggest defense and aviation stories is the anonymous sighting by a “handful of witnesses” of the landing of a mysterious, unidentified new aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 Production Flight Test Facility in Palmdale California. What was it?
Aviation Week reporter Guy Norris scooped the story but was guarded in his reporting of sources. On September 27, 2017 Norris wrote:
“According to information provided to Aviation Week, one such technology demonstrator, believed to be an unmanned subscale aircraft, was observed flying into the U.S. Air Force’s Plant 42 at Palmdale, where Skunk Works is headquartered. The vehicle, which was noted landing in the early hours at an unspecified date in late July, was seen with two T-38 escorts. Lockheed Martin declined to comment directly on the sighting.”"
http://blog.executivebiz.com/2017/12/lockheed-martin-breaks-silence-on-hypersonic-sr-72-blackbirds-successor-aircraft/
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/sr-72-hypersonic-demonstrator-aircraft/
https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/12/the-enigmatic-sr-72-and-the-palmdale-sightings-what-do-they-tell-us-about-americas-secret-hypersonic-program/