"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message
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Aerodynamic lift simply isn't enough. It always comes packaged with a
certain amount of drag, and at hypersonic speeds actually quite a bit of
it. When you do the numbers, it just doesn't work. If the drag is low
enough to stretch the deceleration out that long, you don't have enough
lift to hold you up. Period. Full stop.

Does that also mean that the Sanger skip bomber would not work?

Yes, but did you really expect scientists of that era to truly understand
hypersonic aerodynamics? It's a tricky field, even today.

Jeff
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