On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:54:04AM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > Concorde was almost all gas tank and all low-drag go-fast, military > designs have to be much more flexible, and don't actually want to go > that fast except in sprints (which in some cases, like the B-1B, are a > lot longer than a few minutes). Going supersonic is loud and obvious > and drastically cuts maneuverability and range. And the current F22 > can 'supercruise', ie exceed mach 1 without lighting its burners.
Yes, it can. But it also claims to be the *first* aircraft to be able to do this, which is apparently wrong - the English Electric Lightning was capable of this almost half a century ago. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
