Message posted by Robert on July 09, 2009 at 18:54:24 PST:
I agree with everything you are saying, but I can't think of anything more boring then a HALE UAV! I want my taxes paying for the next generation Hypersonic with test pilots like "The Right Stuff" or the Road Runners! We have the best pilots in the world without question, and I want to see them (or at least hear them) flying over Area 51 in the next generation Hypersonic. I don't look at Area 51 or anything related to it with a scientific, reasoned, educated mind set. I approach Area 51 with my "heart". "As the speed topped out at Mach 1.05, Yeager had the sensation of shooting straight through the top of the sky. The sky turned a deep purple and all at once the stars and the moon came out - the sun shone at the same time. ... He was simply looking out into space. ... He was master of the sky. His was a king's solitude, unique and inviolate, above the dome of the world."
In Reply to: Re: Shouldn't we be more advanced? posted by Peter Merlin on July 09, 2009 at 17:02:47 PST:
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