.22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer

[Lilhigbee]

I did not read this persons article as just the title made me realize it would be on the absurd side.

See what you miss out on when you are logical all the time??

 

[Diamondback]

If you like the SR-71, then this is a must read on how it was designed and built by the lead engineer, along with his involvement in the stealth bomber.

Wish I could find my copy again... actually, Rich was just the lead thermodynamics guy on the SR (though very much the architect of the Nighthawk), the book you really want is Clarence L. Johnson's "Kelly: More Than My Share Of It All."

You shoulda seen my hippy-dippy-dipsh*t sophomore English teacher sniffing disdainfully when she assigned us to do biographies and I declared my pic... you'd swear she thought I was even worse than the arsehole who picked "Adolf Hitler, because he gave the world the VW Bug."

It's like, "Only winner of TWO Collier Trophies when ONE is like a Lifetime Achievement Oscar--this is one of the biggest of the guys whose backs aerospace technology was built on. Or would you rather be stuck on the ground limited to 80mph by train on land and maybe 20mph by sip to cross the seas?"

Needless to say, we did not get along... she failed me in retaliation.

 

[jbett98]

Your right, I read both of them years ago and couldn't put them down.
Amazing engineering and ingenuity.

 

[Diamondback]

My childhood heroes... we'll probably never see the likes of those men again.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I think I saw that, that.."person", at post "#2"....And drew back from the keyboard. Going to be a cop? Be nice if no one responded for a change. Leave 'em hanging going "Whut?".

Same here Mike, I will not be subjected to such stupidity.

 

[Camelfilter]

I wrote a post on his "depressed Im not a cop" thread......then I deleted it.

I wrote a post on that thread, then it called me a troll when someone called it out.

I don't understand folks who do that on forums, so subsequently refer to them as it (or scam telemarketers...).

 

[mkwerx]

Shoot that would have been fun. I'll bet he wore socks and sandles with dread locks.

What's wrong with socks & sandals?

 

[Diamondback]

What's wrong with socks & sandals?

'Cuz when you get too close to someone that lives in combat boots and got the Freakin' KLUTZ gene with both barrels like me, no toe is safe... and that's just from sheer clumsiness, not deliberate action. lol

 

[TTSX]

Had to see if there was already a thread on this cartridge. Just read about it in one of Ackley's books. Commenting to revive the thread momentarily and hopefully let someone else learn about this

 

[Capn Jack]

Re: The RS-71
I had never bothered to figure it out but, it was faster than, (most) speeding bullets.

I remember a post long ago, where someone figured out the muzzle velocity of his
truck after he killed a deer with it.