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lost, one lightly used aircraft. If found [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14497641 ]Please return to USA[/url]
wish i could cycle that fast 😀
Try explaining that one to the boss...
"Er, excuse me sir. *cough* Have you got a minute..?"
2000 degC - chuffin 'ell. Must be made of fire cement 😀
I feel their pain.... My RC plane is still stuck up a tree. I stoofed it in last thursday and I can't get it down.
@ beaker, made me chuckle
Beaker at least you know where yours is. Theirs is somewhere in the ocean.....they think.... Must be a popular area for submarines right now
Mach 20 FFS! That's James Bond shit!
Mach 20 FFS! That's James Bond shit!
Despite the fact they've lost it, the technology behind it is pretty bloomin' fantastic!
Capable of LA to NY in under 12mins is just stunning. I read somewhere that it should be able to reach anywhere in the globe in around an hour!
That's just mind bogglingly quick!
More scarily if it can go that fast who knows where it ended up.
Indeed - if it hit somewhere residential it would take out quite a few buildings & peeps.
yeah well at mach 20 I imagine it would be a big bang.
yeah but the bang would arrive minutes afterwards..
But it flew in 2010 and they've only just admitted that it's lost now...
Next time I'm paddling at Clacton or Whitstable I'll look out for a slightly burnished delta winged object washing up on the shore.
Oops ~ lost USA ultrasonic plane
I bet they didn't see that coming!
I read somewhere that it should be able to reach anywhere in the globe in around an hour!
and then 3 years to find it again.
But it flew in 2010 and they've only just admitted that it's lost now...
was that not the first one?
...which they also lost 😳
Could they not afford a GPS tracker? One of the engineers should have left a phone on board...
they should have put a monkey on board to give the engineers a call if it got in to trouble.
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Admittedly the Pacific is pretty big but you wouldn't have wanted to be in the way of it, even if it had lost quite a lot of it's speed/heat by the time it got to sea level.
I suspect it did have a GPS on board to be honest. I bet the dispay is just saying, "establishing sattelite link, please ensure you have a clear view of the sky for maximum performance".
In one way the technology in achieving these sorts of speeds if far simpler than a normal jet engine. Where the technology is needed is stopping it from melting and making sure the fuel can be delivered and burned quickly enough.