[ARCHIVED THREAD] - please delete

Posted: 5/27/2010 7:55:39 AM EDT

Sorry if it's a dupe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_sc/us_hypersonic_flight

Posted: 5/27/2010 7:56:18 AM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 5/27/2010 7:58:09 AM EDT

[#2]

Yeah umm. I guess if you strap enough of them to the buff you could get it going that fast.

Posted: 5/27/2010 7:59:02 AM EDT

[#3]

You didn't actually read the article, did you.....you just looked at the photo.

Posted: 5/27/2010 7:59:51 AM EDT

[#4]

VERY misleading title and reading is fundamental.

It was the X-51A test vehicle that went Mach 6, not eh B-52

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:00:03 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
You didn't actually read the article, did you.....you just looked at the photo.

That's actually what I did at first. It does look like kind of a tacticool B-52.

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:00:26 AM EDT

[#6]

holy shit

even Dale Brown would be impressed

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:00:30 AM EDT

[#7]

noope guess i didn't

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:02:39 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

VERY misleading title and reading is fundamental.

No it isn't.

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:03:59 AM EDT

[#9]

I thought the AP messed up, turns out it was the OP, haha

Posted: 5/27/2010 8:07:12 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

VERY misleading title and reading is fundamental.

No it isn't.

How so? original title said the B-52 flew Mach 6, when it was the X-52A test vehicle.