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Old November 18th 04, 07:29 PM
Chris W
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Jay Honeck wrote:

On a deeper level, I find the enthusiasm about this scramjet flight to be,
in many ways, pathetic.

I mean, c'mon -- we're talking about an unmanned, rocket-assisted, 10 second
flight here -- which is somehow trumped up to be some sort of a huge success
for NASA? Worse, they're claming that they've "beaten the speed record set
by the X-15 some 40 years ago..."


I have to agree, I think this is really only a notch or 2 above a wind
tunnel experiment that went well.

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