On 2015-06-19 1:19 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Jun-19, at 5:26 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:50 AM, jwsmobile <j...@jwsss.com> wrote:
The closest I came to an aircraft in this class was an almost on a Concorde
Ticket in the late 70's when an upgrade to first class could get you near to
the Concorde fare, and then on a visit in the 90's I got to see one take off
like a rocket @ Heathrow.
I remember the first time I saw Concorde as a boy. I was at JFK, I think to
see off my grandmother who was taking a trip back to the old country. I’m
standing at one of the large windows looking out at the flightline when all of
a sudden, from the right, at what seemed to me to be just a few hundred feet
above the terminal building, comes this giant roaring bird at what seemed to be
a 30 degree bank after just taking off. My little boy jaw just dropped as I
watched this screaming monster white dragon fly by.
What the heck has happened to us that we can build these planes 50 years ago
that are unsurpassed even today? Sad.
Oh but we couldn't do it, you didn't really see it, it's an implanted memory.
It's another great big government conspiracy, just like Apollo.
(satire, in case it isn't obvious)
(saw the Concordes twice, once here in vancouver, once at JFK)
On 2015-Jun-19, at 7:58 AM, ANDY HOLT wrote:
*** If you think the SR-71 was killed-off with unseemly haste read the history
of the TSR-2
Here in Canada the feted story in this vein is the Avro Arrow. Scorched-earth
policy invoked when the program was cancelled, next to nothing remains of them.
There actually are suggestions of conspiracy and subterfuge in that story.
Yeah - just last night I was looking at some Northrup material on
Flickr. Same deal with Northrup's "Flying Wing" - according to this
source, even the drawings were destroyed.
I don't get it.
Comment: http://ur1.ca/mvh7k , et seq.
"in 1949 the Air Force ordered all the flying wings destroyed, all
the jigs and tools destroyed, every trace of the flying wing eradicated.
A few years later even the engineering drawings were all destroyed by
new Northrop management."
--Toby
