freecounterpoint: Touch and Go in an SR71

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Get that nose up, boy!

My Frontier Thesis said...: That's a quick bird. Here's a good one on it by Ben Rich.; 2/12/2008 8:24 AM
Tecumseh said...: Hey, where is the "Coanda" label?? Here is what the Columbia Encyclopedia has to say, in its article on jet propulsion:

Henri Coanda, a Romanian engineer, experimented with a reaction-powered aircraft in 1910, and observed the phenomenon now known as the Coanda effect . In 1939 the English engineer Frank Whittle developed a jet engine that powered a full-sized aircraft, and a year later Secundo Campini in Italy flew for 10 min using a thermal jet engine.

Jet-propelled aircraft have replaced propeller-driven types in all but short-range commercial applications; turboprop planes, in which a propeller is turned by a turbine engine, are used for short-range flights. The SR-71 Blackbird, a U.S. jet spyplane, holds the current speed record of 2,193.17 mph (3,529.56 kph) for a piloted air-breathing airplane

Powwww!!! Where's by Dom Perignon?; 2/12/2008 8:39 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Man, I almost forgot about you Coanda-ists.; 2/12/2008 9:41 AM
Tecumseh said...: How could you? He invented the damn thing, after all. The rest is "just" fiddling at the margins by engineers.; 2/12/2008 9:59 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: I must be slipping. Won't happen again.; 2/12/2008 10:22 AM