F-106 Speed record questions....

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: "Gord Beaman"

"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


Our F-106s flew to Santa Barbara, air refueled, flew to 55,000 feet and
then
headed for the Bearing Straight to meet their Soviet counterparts. Nose
down from 55,000 feet can make a lot of speed.


Christ John!...it's Bering Strait...you sound so careless, aren't
you concerned with what people think of you?

I am a lazy engineer that does not care about spelling. That much effort is
someting I associate with work, not recreation.

Just don't ask him why the California Guard sixes he was working on were
intercepting Soviet aircraft in Alaskan airpsace when there were aircraft
in
Alaska just for that purpose.

I believe it was we that were being intercepted.

Every now and then the pair of F-106s flight were not decoys and the big
glass eye would drop down and take their picture. All very funny, from a
LeMay perspective.

Tarver Engineering wrote:

Our F-106s flew to Santa Barbara, air refueled, flew to 55,000 feet and

then

headed for the Bearing Straight to meet their Soviet counterparts. Nose
down from 55,000 feet can make a lot of speed.


Christ John!...it's Bering Strait...you sound so careless, aren't
you concerned with what people think of you?


I am a lazy engineer that does not care about spelling. That much effort is
someting I associate with work, not recreation.


Well, hopefully accuracy is something else that you associate
only with work as well, because it hasn't ever seemed that you
associate it with recreation.

"Michael Williamson" wrote in
message ...
Tarver Engineering wrote:

Our F-106s flew to Santa Barbara, air refueled, flew to 55,000 feet
and

then

headed for the Bearing Straight to meet their Soviet counterparts.
Nose
down from 55,000 feet can make a lot of speed.


Christ John!...it's Bering Strait...you sound so careless, aren't
you concerned with what people think of you?


I am a lazy engineer that does not care about spelling. That much
effort is
someting I associate with work, not recreation.


Well, hopefully accuracy is something else that you associate
only with work as well, because it hasn't ever seemed that you
associate it with recreation.

There is no problem with my accuracy.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote


There is no problem with my accuracy.

JT, the question we seem to be having revolves around your words "normal
operating speed".

No one doubts the F-106 at 2+Mach top speed. Exact cites vary slightly.

But that speed as "normal"? YGBSM

Pete

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote


There is no problem with my accuracy.

JT, the question we seem to be having revolves around your words "normal
operating speed".

My comment as to mach 2.3 being normal operating speed goes to the assertion
that the airplane would have a problem with going that fast. Taking an
F-106 to mach 2.3 does not damage the airplane.

No one doubts the F-106 at 2+Mach top speed. Exact cites vary slightly.

But that speed as "normal"? YGBSM

Normal, as in probably every F-106 saw that speed somethime in it's
lifetime.

"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Pete" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote


There is no problem with my accuracy.

JT, the question we seem to be having revolves around your words "normal
operating speed".

My comment as to mach 2.3 being normal operating speed goes to the
assertion
that the airplane would have a problem with going that fast. Taking an
F-106 to mach 2.3 does not damage the airplane.

No one doubts the F-106 at 2+Mach top speed. Exact cites vary slightly.

But that speed as "normal"? YGBSM

Normal, as in probably every F-106 saw that speed somethime in it's
lifetime.

That's an interesting definition of the word "normal".

The "normal" operating speed of my old minivan is 105, since it did that
once in it's lifetime.

Pete

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message
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"Pete" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote


There is no problem with my accuracy.

JT, the question we seem to be having revolves around your words
"normal
operating speed".

My comment as to mach 2.3 being normal operating speed goes to the
assertion
that the airplane would have a problem with going that fast. Taking an
F-106 to mach 2.3 does not damage the airplane.

No one doubts the F-106 at 2+Mach top speed. Exact cites vary
slightly.

But that speed as "normal"? YGBSM

Normal, as in probably every F-106 saw that speed somethime in it's
lifetime.

That's an interesting definition of the word "normal".

The "normal" operating speed of my old minivan is 105, since it did that
once in it's lifetime.

If your F-105 is capable of doing something inside its flight envelope, it
is normal operation. You have to remember that I have been harrassed here
for years over claiming our F-106s were capable of mach 2.3 without damaging
the airplane.

An example of an abnormal operation is the cobra manouver, as the flight
controls are altered from normal operation.