On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:19:57 -0500, Peter Stickney wrote:
In article ,
ess (phil hunt) writes:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:13:20 -0700, Scott Ferrin wrote:

Kinda gives you an appreciation of the AIM-47. A long ranged missile
fired at Mach 3+ and 80,000ft+ I still think that the YF-12 was one
of the best "might have beens".

Didn't it take ages to fuel the thing, making it incapable of
scrambling quickly?

With the Blackbirds, it's not so much fuel as it is the ancilliary
stuff, for example the Tri-Ethyl Borane needed to get the fuel burning (And
is Nasty Evil Stuff, handled more carefully (and much more dangerous)
than Nuclear Waste,

Did it ever dissolve the pilot, like the Me 163's fuel did?


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