Terminal velocity of bombs?

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
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"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

An analysis I did some years ago showed that a Mk-84 dropped from about
30,000 ft and about 500 knots will become just about supersonic before
striking the ground. However, that analysis did not account for the
relatively small lift force occurring as the bomb centerline transitions
from horizontal to near vertical during the bomb's flight.

WDA

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"BackToNormal" wrote in message
zz...
Was half paying attention to a TV doco on the Dambusters a few mins ago
and thought I heard the narrator say the Earthquake bomb designed by
Barnes Wallis broke the sound barrie on its way down.
Comments anyone?

ronh

--
"People do not make decisions on facts, rather,
how they feel about the facts" Robert Consedine

There's a Tall Boy at at the USAF museume at Dayton. There's a 44,000
pound T12 standing door guard at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum
building. ISTR both have canted fins. (I trust both are inert shapes.)
Quite a few 'drop models' of weighted models of proposed aircraft went
supersonic when released at high altitude. Telemetry relayed what
happened on the way down. ISTR the Miles M52 was tested this way.
FWIW Mk 82 slicks separate just fine and hit the target accurately
when released supersonic - (G).
Walt BJ

Walt BJ wrote:
There's a Tall Boy at at the USAF museume at Dayton. There's a 44,000
pound T12 standing door guard at the Aberdeen Proving Ground Museum
building. ISTR both have canted fins. (I trust both are inert shapes.)
Quite a few 'drop models' of weighted models of proposed aircraft went
supersonic when released at high altitude. Telemetry relayed what
happened on the way down. ISTR the Miles M52 was tested this way.
FWIW Mk 82 slicks separate just fine and hit the target accurately
when released supersonic - (G).
Walt BJ

http://www.johnmullen.org.uk/aerospce/pics/bombs.htm