Anonymous Coward User ID: 533330 United States 04/23/2012 06:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you're a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government's best engineers at its far-out research agency. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, has made public its best guess about what might have caused its unmanned arrowhead-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) to suddenly lose contact and crash in the Pacific just a few minutes after slicing through the sky at Mach 20 last August: it was going so fast its skin peeled off. After an eight-month investigation, DARPA concluded that even though the HTV-2 was expected to lose some of its skin mid-flight, "larger than anticipated portions of the vehicle's skin peeled from the aerostructure," the agency said in a statement Friday. The agency said it expected the HTV-2, which goes so fast it can make the commute from New York to Los Angeles in 12 minutes, to experience "impulsive shock waves" at such speeds, but [ link to news.yahoo.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14734336 Canada 04/23/2012 06:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave Ew, I hope that was a drone, because you know what I'm imagining. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 533330 United States 04/23/2012 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave goes so fast it can make the commute from New York to Los Angeles in 12 minutes
Can u imagine that?? Owuld prolly cost 10k to do so though lol |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14734336 Canada 04/23/2012 06:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave
Ew, I hope that was a drone, because you know what I'm imagining.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14734336 Ew, I hope that was a drone, because you know what I'm imagining.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14734336 ah, "unmanned." good. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14734336 Canada 04/23/2012 06:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave goes so fast it can make the commute from New York to Los Angeles in 12 minutes
Can u imagine that?? Owuld prolly cost 10k to do so though lol
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 533330 yes but the side effect of being dead (possibly through being peeled like an onion?) is off-putting. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 857470 Canada 04/23/2012 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave I told them they should have used gorilla glue and some good duct tape...but they just wouldnt listen |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 533330 United States 04/23/2012 07:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave
I told them they should have used gorilla glue and some good duct tape...but they just wouldnt listen Quoting: RememberThis lol, I agree as gorilla glue and duct tape hold anything together. But seriously speaking, This was top secret so can u imagine what other type aircraft they have that is being tested esp if they released this one and its info. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 857470 Canada 04/23/2012 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Cause of hypersonic plane crash revealed-Flying at 20 times the speed of sound proved too much for the top-secret aircraft. 'Impulsive shock wave I told them they should have used gorilla glue and some good duct tape...but they just wouldnt listen Quoting: RememberThis lol, I agree as gorilla glue and duct tape hold anything together. But seriously speaking, This was top secret so can u imagine what other type aircraft they have that is being tested esp if they released this one and its info. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 533330 At that speed even suspended dust in the air is super abrasive |