"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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In article ,
(B2431) wrote:

What seems so be missing from this dicussion is no one said "manned
supersonic
flight."

The first unmanned supersonic flights were some types of bullets fired
in the
late 1800s. As far as flying machines being super sonic the Nazi A-4 did
it
before the Me262 even flew.


Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

No, the first manmade supersonic flight was the tip of a whip, at some
time buried in the sands of history.

Actually, if you go into some "extensive research" you might discover that
the first supersonic flight was made in my classroom at a parochial military
academy when I was in the sixth grade by Sister Paskalina,(AKA Pasky :-)
when she caught me smoking in the bathroom and used that long hardwood
pointer she had with the little rubber tip on it on my open palm!! Little
did I know at that time that the "whoosh" I heard just before the pain of
contact, was the boundary layer separation at the leading edge of transonic
shock formation as that damn thing came down virtually on the very edge of
mach one!!! :-))))
I'm not absolutely certain, but to this day, when I look at my right palm, I
could SWEAR I see a welt line vaguely showing from upper right to lower
left.
:-)))))
Anyway, Pasky convinced me to give up smoking. To this day I don't touch the
damn things.
Dudley Henriques
International Fighter Pilots Fellowship
Commercial Pilot/CFI Retired
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