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11 years 8 months ago #21694 by faawrenchbndr
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True......

Kelly Johnson went on to design an aircraft that flew Mach 3+, grew 3-4" in flight, and was the 1st aircraft designed on a computer.
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11 years 8 months ago #21695 by LebbenB
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True. The SR-71.

The four parts of a fragmentation grenade are fuze, filler, striker and pull pin. True or False?

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11 years 8 months ago #21696 by bipe215
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Got to answer the Chuck Yeager T or F first B)

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11 years 8 months ago #21697 by faawrenchbndr
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LebbenB wrote: True. The SR-71.



Only PARTIALLY true,.....it was designed with slide rules, a wee bit before computers.

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11 years 8 months ago #21741 by Redscout02
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True for Yeager as far as the U.S Aif Force says. Is there any other?

You can get spam at Jack in Box in Hawaii. T or F

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11 years 8 months ago #21743 by faawrenchbndr
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Yeager was the 1st man to break the sound barrier in an aircraft.



As for the Spam,.......True

The KC-135 Stratotanker holds 30,000 gallons of fuel with a max load.
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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #21745 by Siscowet
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faawrenchbndr wrote: Yeager was the 1st man to break the sound barrier in an aircraft.



As for the Spam,.......True

The KC-135 Stratotanker holds 30,000 gallons of fuel with a max load.
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The SR71 was designed to fly a piggy back mini D 41 drone that could be launched over high threat areas if needed.
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11 years 8 months ago #21747 by bipe215
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faawrenchbndr wrote: Yeager was the 1st man to break the sound barrier in an aircraft.



As for the Spam,.......True

The KC-135 Stratotanker holds 30,000 gallons of fuel with a max load.
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The Official Air Force line is that Yeager was the first to break the sound barrier "in level flight", but its likely that George Welch broke it first in an F-86 (in a dive) multiple times before Yeager. He had created a sonic boom over Edwards previous to Yeager's attempt and was told by the brass to knock it off as they had a tremendous investment in the X-1 program. Welch would have none of it and did it again the morning of Yeager's historic flight. Of course, it wasn't official, but many people heard the sonic booms and it was done routinely with F-86's afterward. It was well known enough for the Air Force to change the language and it can be found on the USAF historical studies website. This takes nothing away from Yeager's skill of course, but it's seems pretty obvious it happened. Welch died later testing the F-100 and hasn't been able to defend his claim to fame.

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11 years 8 months ago #21748 by faawrenchbndr
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Yea,........I know all about that.

Guess you missed the "in an aircraft" part.
Yeager did not actually break the spund barrier, his aircraft did,he was a passenger.

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11 years 8 months ago #21749 by bipe215
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An F-86 is an aircraft B)

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