NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow 214
First time accepted submitter littlesparkvt writes "The NASA and the Pentagon's experimental aircraft could go from NY to London in about an hour. With a cost of 140 million dollars USD. During the test the X51-A will reach speeds of 1700 meters a second and climb to an altitude of 70,000 feet."
Re:Math (Score:3, Funny)
You have to account for jet lag.
Re:1700 miles a *second* ??? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:1700 miles a *second* ??? (Score:5, Funny)
Nope. It's correct. They are launching over the Pacific ocean. They expect it to disappear off the left side of the map and reappear on the right side of the map about 14 seconds later. 24,000 miles divided by 14 seconds gives you 1700 miles/sec.
Maybe they should use a globe.
Re:Cost (Score:5, Funny)
This isn't a jet-plane. It's a fucking missile.
Okay. So it could blow up London in about an hour.
Re:1700 miles a second????? (Score:5, Funny)
Mach 5 = 1,701.45 m / s
Yup. m = miles, s = seconds. That's 1700 miles per second.
I mean, what else could m possibly stand for? There's only one unit of measurement that starts with the letter 'm'...
Re:1700 miles a second????? (Score:5, Funny)
m is metre moron
It's an American missile. Why would they be talking in weird foreign measurements? I mean, "metre"?! R before E? Who spells like that? Sounds like some kind of cheese-eatin' surrender-monkey socialist kind of measurement. Certainly not the kind of measurement that freedom lovin' people from the Good ol' USA would use.
So there you have it. 1700 miles per second. That'll put the fear of God into those godless commies.
(I was going to mark my original post as sarcasm but I thought, "Nah. People will get it.")
Re:huray for proofreading (Score:5, Funny)
Dad: Max, why does the word "wing" appear twice in this sentence?
Max (6yrs old): Because the B-52 has two wings.
Re:Cost (Score:5, Funny)
But it will still take NBC 6 hours to report it.
Re:1700 miles a second????? (Score:2, Funny)
Wow!