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| Key Words: | ParaNet, UFO, Ufology |
(5240) Sun 14 Jun 92 12:24p
By: Bill Moore
To: All
Re: Two Mysteries Solved
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From: billy@anasaz (Bill Moore)
Date: 14 Jun 92 08:08:43 GMT
Organization: Anasazi, Inc. Phoenix, AZ, USA
Message-ID: <1992Jun14.080843.16102@anasaz>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
My post on the NASA video might not have gotten out. It boiled down to
identifying the two objects as ice crystals near the shuttle. The
abrupt turn optical illusion occured when they hit a stream of OMS
hydrazine. These thrusters fire very small, short bursts automatically
to keep the shuttle in a programmed alignment.
And, for those of you interested in the physical evidence reported by
Jacques Valle from the "UFO" explosion in South America, the titanium
alloy was apparently from an SR-71 that broke up in flight for unknown
reasons. It's secret because it was in somebody's air space where it
wasn't supposed to be. The "not of this earth" composition reported
by Vallee is consistent with the material from which the SR-71's wings
are made.
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(5615) Wed 17 Jun 92 12:24p
By: Wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
To: All
Re: Re: Blackbird Sr-71
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From: wellison@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 17 Jun 92 14:30:54 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <1992Jun17.093054.40852@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
The SR-71 has a top end speed FAR IN EXCESS OF THE STATED MACH 3+ AND IT'S TOP
CEILING FAR IN EXCESS OF THE STATED 100,000+. But by how far and how much, to
my knowledge, still remains classified. I worked on the aircraft for four years
on the 'Nephographics' systems. Look up 'Nephograhics' in the dictionary and
you will find it means 'study of the clouds'. Those systems to my knowledge are
also classified. The aircraft is impressive in it's flight parameters, but it's
no X-15. The SR-71 was the culimation of several other designs, most notably,
the YF-12A.
However, I have never heard anything about it flying faster each time it flew
because it got so hot that it molded it's self more aerodynamically. True, the
skin would heat up due to air friction across it, but not to the point where
the the skin was on the verge of 'melting'. That just isn't the case. Titanium
has a metal content of 32% illmenite, 60% rutile and the rest is additives that
the Skunk works added to it, which I have no idea what that was. But I do
know that Titanium has a melting point of 1675 degress C (3047 degress F). The
air friction at the altitudes the SR flew at were at a minimum due to the very
low density of the air. The SR-71 DID NOT FLY AT MACH 3 AT 30,000 FEET ! !
It would get as hot as 600 degrees C though (no where near melting point). So I
don't know where the info for it 'melting into shape' came from, but it is in
error. Rumors abound on the SR-71 because of the mystery surrounding it. Yes it
is an impressive aircraft and yes, it currently holds the worlds speed record
over given distances (at least what is released to the public and while I
worked with it in terms of 'other' aircraft) but it does have it's limitations.
And no, it's not made from 'alien' technology but the brain child of Kelly
Johnson, Lockheed, and groups and groups of tax payers money ;-)
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(5846) Fri 19 Jun 92 12:27p
By: Charles Mcgrew
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Re: Re: Blackbird Sr-71
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From: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Date: 19 Jun 92 02:08:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Message-ID: <Jun.18.22.08.18.1992.2495@dropout.rutgers.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Wiliam Burrows' generally excellent "Deep Black" has this to say about
SR's:
"In July 1976 an SR-71 set an absolute and class world speed
record of 2,193.6 miles an hour at an altitude record for level flight
of 85,069 feet. Another dashed from New York to London in less than
two hours. This has allowed the Strategic Air Command, which operates
the SR-71s, to gain public relations points while at the same time
sticking, straight-faced, to its tenaciously held, though ambiguous,
line which claims that its prize reconaissance aircraft has a ceiling
'in excess' of 85,000 feet and a top speed of Mach 3+, or more than
three times the speed of sound. In fact, the excess altitude amounts
to an additional 20,000 or so feet, depending on how much fuel is on
board, giving the plane a true ceiling of more than 100,000 feet.*
And the plus sign after Mach 3 really stands for Mach 4, or even a bit
better than that, which translates to a top speed of some 2,600 miles
an hour.
Due to atmospheric friction the heat buildup at such speed is
extraordinary. Beause of that, 93 percent of the SR-71's frame is
made of titanium, a head-resistant alloy that is difficult to shape
with precision. At operational speed (which is not necessarily top
speed), the skin midway along the plane's back heats to 511 degrees
Fahrenheit, while the temperature along its engine nacelles rises to
1,050 degrees and, around the engine exhausts, to 1,200 degrees. The
front canopy's Plexiglas windscreen, behind which the pilot sits in an
orange space suit, heats to 622 degrees. Lt. Col. Jerry Glasser, an
SR-71 pilot, has said that the windscreen through which he looks
becomes so hot during a mission that he is unable to keep his hand on
it longer than twenty seconds even though he wears insulated, flame-
retardant gloves."
(The '*': "By 1976 even U-2's, with wings that had grown from 80 feet
to 103 feet, were making it up to ninety thousand feet.")
The Book is copyright 1986, which explains its 'now' attitude to SR's.
The above came from page 154.
Charles
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