It was also porous on the ground. The skin tightened at elevation and speed
I Erbs
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On Jun 11, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Greg Wilkinson <gregwilkinson at roadrunner.com>
wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 04:22 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
>> Power required increases proportional to the square of the speed increase;
e.g. it takes four times the power and, roughly, the fuel to go twice as
fast.
> I believe Kelly Johnston's SR-71 was the exception to that rule. I was
watching an interview with two of the SR-71 pilots on the History Channel
(IIRC). They said that when their fuel was getting low, they'd throttle up. I
think that thing was only happy when it was screaming.
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