Re: NASA 'Scramjet' Soars at Almost 7,000 Mph

From: Geoff Cashman (theobviousgcashman_at_theobviousindiana.edu)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:04:48 +0000 (UTC)

In article <3bCod.203679$9b.180802@edtnps84>,
Brian Allardice <dba@extraneous.uniserve.com> wrote:
>
>The YF-12-A was a failure - but hey, keep a few around as, well, a gift to the
>contractors. It *was* a bloody sieve, and everybody knows it. No model for a
>commercial SST. But call it an SR-71 and hey!
>

On what metric are you labelling the SR-71 a failure?

-Geoff

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