(Don French) wrote in message . com...
Seriously,
they could have dropped a Piper cub off that rocket and it could have
maintained Mach 9 for hundreds of miles.

I know you started that sentence with the word "seriously", but you
can't be serious. A Piper Cub would instantly disintegrate at Mach 9,
assuming you were somehow able to protect it from the blast of
(relatively thin) air while you accellerated to that speed. It
certainly doubt that even the pieces would "maintain" Mach 9 long
enough to travel hundreds of miles. I'm pretty sure that they would
travel hundreds of miles, though.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)