Rutan hits 200k feet! Almost there!

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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But - and we've told you this a couple of times so far - IT NEVER
HAPPENED IN THE X-15 PROGRAM.


So what? It obviously had the capability to do so. If flying two 100 km+
flights within a two week period was thought to have been a significant
achievement forty years ago they surely would have done it.



Well, according to you, and only you.


Well, then, please explain what would have been gained by doing it.



Considering how they actually ran the X-15 program, if this were true,
they would have tried it anyway. They *liked* fast turnarounds in that
program, especially at the end.

They didn't, therefore they couldn't.


Illogical. Since the craft demonstrated the ability to achieve altitudes
above 100 km and was turned in less than two weeks a number of times it is a
virtual certainty that they could have flown two such flights within a two
week period if they felt there was some significance in doing so. The most
logical reason for not doing it is simply that there was no special
significance attached to two such flights in two weeks.