On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > --
As could the Iroqois-powered Avro Arrow, although that never entered service. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
