Comments on: Breaking the Sound Barrier

By: kirkjamestkirk

kirkjamestkirk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

The music : Oxygène …
The music : Oxygène 2 by Jean-Michel Jarre. Juste great!

By: mrtrin

mrtrin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

True, but what I …
True, but what I mean is that all the mystique of the sound barrier was a bunch of BS, when it had been achieved years earlier on several occasions.

Obviously it could’ve been achieved in level flight.

*shrugs*

Although I am a bit stunned that the Me-163 apparently didn’t break the barrier in level flight.

By: sonicbomb

sonicbomb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

George Welch’s …
George Welch’s attempt was never confirmed and was certainly not official, and again in a dive. Furthermore, the F-86 was directly decended from “aquired” German designs. The X-1 would have never gotten off the ground without the British jet engine, and the aerodynamic research done on the Miles M.52 two years before, which was all given to the U.S. without credit.

By: sonicbomb

sonicbomb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

It was the first …
It was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in “controlled, level flight”. The Me-262 and other prop driven ww2 aircraft could break the sound barrier, but only in a dive. A maneuver that usually killed them as their elevators locked up.

By: mrtrin

mrtrin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

Actually the X-1 …
Actually the X-1 wasn’t the first plane to break the sound barrier… the Me-262 and Me-163 could go supersonic in dives.

As could the F-86 Sabre; do some research on George Welch… he broke the sound barrier just 2 weeks before Yeager’s official incident.

By: neeonzen

neeonzen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

The steam engine, …
The steam engine, railways, jet engines were all invented by the British. When did the Americans claim these inventions as there own? And, everyone knows that rocketry was pioneered in Germany. STFU you stupid Anglophile.

By: fiveoscar

fiveoscar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

Correction on some …
Correction on some of your examples.
–Mass production- Eli Terry (usa) 1814
–Industrial revolution is not an invention. It’s a phase that started in England but one in which many countries took part developing their own technology.
–Computers- The U.S. contributed to the invention of the computer before england back in 1942 with the Atanasoff-Berry Computer and we lead in computer technology today.
–USA made first supersonic plane.
I wish you weren’t such a .

By: jeeziss101

jeeziss101 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

I remember hearing …
I remember hearing this music in a movie called “Galipoli” with mel Gibson

By: bluedonkeyzoo

bluedonkeyzoo — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

I live in UK, but …
I live in UK, but am American. I know fully how much British tech was forced out of UK by us, oftentimes totally dishonestly. British inventions include steam engines, mass production, industrial revolution, railways, steam turbines, jets, computers, supersonic aerodynamics, you name it! We stole much from Germany too, spoils of war, but we took it. When you made your own A & H bombs we made you buy ours. When your rocketry got good we made it stop. I wish more Americans would show more respect!

By: sonicbomb

sonicbomb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:59:15 +0000

I aware of that. …
I aware of that. Add it to the list of technology we gave to the US, or destroyed because they told us to. The Jet Engine, the BAC TSR2.. they also shut us out of the Manhatten project after they had their bomb. We invent it, give it to the Yanks, shortly before the Soviets steal it.