Concorde was almost all gas tank and all low-drag go-fast, military designs have to be much more flexible, and don't actually want to go that fast except in sprints (which in some cases, like the B-1B, are a lot longer than a few minutes). Going supersonic is loud and obvious and drastically cuts maneuverability and range. And the current F22 can 'supercruise', ie exceed mach 1 without lighting its burners.
And Motorhead in a pub has nothing on a B-52 with the throttles firewalled. Seen both close-up. The BUFF was louder. -Adam On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about ZZTop in concert from the second row, or Motorhead inside a > suburban pub. Mere jet aeroplanes pale into insignificance. > > But seriously, what most impressed me about Concorde was that it could cross > the Atlantic at supersonic speed with its afterburners lit the whole time. > Its military contemporaries could only go mach+ for short squirts lest they > used up their fuel within minutes. SR71 is the obvious exception by the > virtue of running on voodoo juice and having very trick intakes. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Cotty > > > Sent: Friday, 18 April 2008 8:29 AM > > To: pentax list > > Subject: Re: OT - Vulcan Bomber for the airheads > > > > > On 17/4/08, John Francis, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > > >Mind you, for sheer noise, it's hard to beat the eventual home of > > >the Olympus Two - the Concorde (which had *four* of them!). > > > > Sorry - B1-B on take off, just past the end of the runway, 30 feet up in > > a scaffold rig, ear defenders on. Words cannot describe the vibration > > that permeates the body. Haven't felt anything like it before or since. > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
