Terminal velocity of bombs?

"Kerryn Offord"
The Tallboys and Grandslams had a well designed ballistic shape and
could accelerate to these velocities

Seems to me I heard somewhere that a high altitude parachutist was going
to try and break the sound barrier! Anyone know anything about this?

Ed

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police "Ed Majden"
blurted out:

Seems to me I heard somewhere that a high altitude parachutist was going
to try and break the sound barrier! Anyone know anything about this?

Try this
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...754911,00.html

"Juvat"
After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police "Ed Majden"
blurted out:

I don't get this "Victoria's Secret Police" crack! Please enlighten
me????

Ed Majden implored me thusly:

I don't get this "Victoria's Secret Police" crack! Please enlighten
me????

Oy...imagine if you will that somebody is interrogating you, perhaps
the Gestapo, perhaps the KGB. No a pretty thought.

Now imagine scantily clad lingerie models trying to get something from
you...

YMMV

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:43:07 GMT, Ed Majden wrote:

I don't get this "Victoria's Secret Police" crack! Please enlighten
me????

http://www.victoriassecret.com/
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/secr.html

-Jeff B.
yeff at erols dot com

"Ed Majden" wrote in message
...

"Juvat"
After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police "Ed
Majden"
blurted out:

I don't get this "Victoria's Secret Police" crack! Please
enlighten
me????

Ed, you really need to get out more. :^)
--
Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
(If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:06:26 GMT, Juvat
wrote:

After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police "Ed Majden"
blurted out:

Seems to me I heard somewhere that a high altitude parachutist was going
to try and break the sound barrier! Anyone know anything about this?

Try this
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...754911,00.html

And, that link mentions that Joe Kittinger did it around 30 years ago.
Beside the supersonic freefall that Joe did, he also got a MiG in SEA
and spent some time as a guest of the North Vietnamese.

Ooops. I've fallen into the trap that Ed Majden set. Here's yet
another claim that either a Yank or a Russian did everything worth
doing first!

Yep, Kittinger did it already.

Ed Rasimus remarked:

Beside the supersonic freefall that Joe did, he also got a MiG in SEA
and spent some time as a guest of the North Vietnamese.

That POW part had a great deal to do with duplicating the MiG kill
part...Fangs out, Hair on Fire...

The reports of his free-fall records...scary. Mas Cajones.

Juvat

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:44:48 GMT, Juvat
wrote:

Ed Rasimus remarked:

Beside the supersonic freefall that Joe did, he also got a MiG in SEA
and spent some time as a guest of the North Vietnamese.

That POW part had a great deal to do with duplicating the MiG kill
part...Fangs out, Hair on Fire...

The reports of his free-fall records...scary. Mas Cajones.

Juvat

Dare I say it was a "Triple-Nickel" thing. Lots of competition.

Something strange about what a MiG airborne will do to your common
sense. I always said I was happy killing SAM sites, never had no
argument with no MiG. Live and let live was my philosophy. Then one
day a pair of -21s came blowing through between my element and the
Weasels. Didn't take but a second. I called blow the tanks and stroked
the burners. Larry Cary, on my wing, called "six is clear" and we had
our coifures fully engulfed in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, Madden and Ritchie interposed themselves between us and
the designated morts for the day. Back to rooting around in the dirt.