NASA 'Scramjet' Launched on Mach 10 Try

"rk" wrote in message
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Tuesday's launch was expected to be the last research flight for NASA's
B-52,
which is being retired after some 40 years of service.

40 years? Puppy

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:11:17 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
wrote:

"rk" wrote in message
...

Tuesday's launch was expected to be the last research flight for NASA's
B-52,
which is being retired after some 40 years of service.

40 years? Puppy

....Maybe, maybe not. Wasn't that BUFF about 5 or 6 years in active
service before being transferred to NACA/NASA?

OM

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:02:21 -0600, rk
wrote:

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tiny unmanned NASA "scramjet" soared above the Pacific
Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a
successful demonstration of a radical new engine technology

....And to anyone on the team lurking out there, a big fat "YEEE-HAW!"
of congrats to each and every one of you working on this project.
While it does appear that NASA's efforts are going to be focused on
replacing the Shuttle with "Apollo Mark II" for the near and semi-long
term, it's good to know that the scramjet hasn't been totally
forgotten!

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

There were some DC-3s still in RAAF service in the late 1990s. I don't know
how old they were though.

rk wrote:


Tuesday's launch was expected to be the last research flight for NASA's B-52,
which is being retired after some 40 years of service.


Wouldn't that look great in the Smithsonian Air & Space museum with
their X-15 on the pylon?
Okay, so it's a little on the large size... :-\

Pat

OM wrote:


...Maybe, maybe not. Wasn't that BUFF about 5 or 6 years in active
service before being transferred to NACA/NASA?



First flew on June 11th, 1955...the eighth B-52 built:
http://www.qadas.com/qadas/nasa/nasa-hm/0166.html

Pat

Neil Gerace wrote:

There were some DC-3s still in RAAF service in the late 1990s. I don't know
how old they were though.


Unless there's a Ju-52 lurking about, I'd be hard pressed to think of
anything older in current operational service.
The Iraqi Provisional Government took delivery of it's first two
aircraft a couple of months ago.
Two Republic Seabees like this:
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...oates/1206.jpg
They showed them on the news... it was sorta pathetic.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...

Unless there's a Ju-52 lurking about, I'd be hard pressed to think of
anything older in current operational service.

A65-86, a Douglas C-47B which entered RAAF service in April 1945, is still
with the RAN's Historic Flight (therefore not strictly operational service,
but still airworthy and with the original owner) 59 years later. Another
DC-3, A65-78, was in continuous operational RAAF service from Jan 1945 to
1997.

http://www.adf-serials.com/2a65.shtml

Pat Flannery writes:

Neil Gerace wrote:

There were some DC-3s still in RAAF service in the late 1990s. I
don't know how old they were though.

Unless there's a Ju-52 lurking about, I'd be hard pressed to think of
anything older in current operational service.
The Iraqi Provisional Government took delivery of it's first two
aircraft a couple of months ago.
Two Republic Seabees like this:
http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contri...oates/1206.jpg
They showed them on the news... it was sorta pathetic.

Are you sure they weren't Seabird Seekers?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...d/iraq/aac.htm

They look sorta the same if you squint hard enough.

--
Gordon Tisher

Don't interrupt me while I'm
interrupting - Winston Churchill

rk wrote:

NASA 'Scramjet' Launched on Mach 10 Try

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tiny unmanned NASA "scramjet" soared above the Pacific
Ocean Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a
successful demonstration of a radical new engine technology

Heard a news report saying something about this technology
might be used in commercial aviation. But if the SST bombed
(expensive and a fuel hog) how would this scramjet airliner
"fly"? A ticket can't cost more than regular airfare plus
maybe, as an upper limit, $30 an hour of time saved by getting
there faster. $30 being what the average business travler's
time would be worth.