Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
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#2I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
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#3Like a banana through a fence.
Seriously if you've never done it - throw a banana HARD through a fence. Quite interesting.
Yes I am insane.
Re: Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
#4Like a banana through a fence. Seriously if you've never done it - throw a banana HARD through a fence. Quite interesting. Yes I am insane.
Skinned? Chain-link?
Re: Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
#5Like a banana through a fence. Seriously if you've never done it - throw a banana HARD through a fence. Quite interesting. Yes I am insane.
I... would like to see a video of this.
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#6What is secret about something written about publicly?
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#7I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
The latest missiles and bombers were always paraded to the foreign press in Red Square.
Seeing, counting and not knowing is fearing.
And at home, its securing funding too, of course.
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#8Are they going to continue this research or was that the last flight?
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#9I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
Indeed, nothing about it being secret appears anywhere in the blog posting, prosaic title is:
ENGINEERING REVIEW BOARD CONCLUDES REVIEW OF HTV-2 SECOND TEST FLIGHT
And it's quite cool; of particular note is their analysis that the improvements prompted by the previous first test allowed the flight control system to keep it stable for a while as the skin was peeling off and creating nasty aerodynamic effects. And I gather they have some real world to provide the materials science types.
Re: Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
#10What is secret about something written about publicly?
Do you know how to build it? Me neither.