Someone mentioned the SR-71's engine cones - here's a graphic that shows
how it works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SR71_J58_Engine_Airflow_Patterns.svg
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need to find that and watch it. I've been to the museum at
> Wright-Patterson, and have stood next to both the SR-71 and the XB-70.
> Aircraft don't get much sexier than that.
>
> What still blows my mind, to this day, is that those starships are FIFTY
> years old. FIFTY. Look at those designs! Those are not 50-year-old-looking
> jets.
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Ed - I just found the Discovery Channel video on-line, and watched it.
>> Thanks for the reminder of this piece of history. As to the accident, one
>> comment on a different coverage of the event shed some light on the reason
>> that Joe Walker got in so close to the XB-70 tip. The commenter said his
>> father worked in telemetry at Edwards at the time, and that the photo plane
>> had asked him to move in closer for another shot. It seems they
>> underestimated the strength of the wing tip vortices, which flipped the
>> F-104 on its back and over the top of the XB-70, damaging the vertical fins
>> and the left wing tip, leading to its loss of control.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>> On 6/2/2015 11:19 AM, Sawyer, Edward wrote:
>>
>>> Very cool that you got to work on that. It was a tragedy one of them was
>>> lost in that accident. At least one still survives at WP. I will have to
>>> get out there to see that one day. Definitely an impressive plane, ahead
>>> of it¹s time really.
>>>
>>> Anyone who is interested in planes should definitely read up on the XB-70
>>> Valkyrie.
>>>
>>> Those were different times, no doubt.
>>>
>>> -Ed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, what finally ended up as the XB-70. It was fun, in those days,
>>>> because the USAF was funded well enough to maintain expensive facilities
>>>> and carry out intensive ground test programs. Things are much different
>>>> now. :-(
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>>
>>>
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