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reply posted on 11-4-2005 @ 03:09 PM by Snark
Originally posted by Templarum
Originally posted by emile
hai! SwitchbladeNGC
you'd better give us the answer which you showed esp. pic.#17 I really wish to know. everry pic Waynos diven who do can give a correct answer.
what should you do?

It's a Navaho X-10, experimental cruise platform for the planned SM-64 Navaho cruise missiles back in the 50's. That one pictured in 17 first flew 10/14/1953 at Edwards, had at least 3 flights. Held the record at Mach 2.05 for a short time. Now stored at USAFM. Remote controlled, very fast at the time. Couldn't land properly, alot were lost when they veered off the runway.

No ram-jet intakes in the wing roots. I thought the same thing. Also, didn't the Navaho not have any other power source, other than the booster rocket that it sat on (like the space shuttle?) I was not aware of a navaho being used three times. For the most part, when the cruise missile portion separated from the booster portion....ka-boom. Then, when the cruise missile portion went into a steep dive to start the ram-jets....it just kept on diving, right into the Atlantic. I know of three vehicles that separated successfully, started the ram-jets, and flew to South America and returned to land on the skid strip at Canaveral AFS. 1 actually landed (which caused great jubilation and martini drinking) and the other two FBed. (fireballed).

I had heard that a couple did quite a bit better than mach 2.

-Snark



[edit on 17/3/05 by Templarum]



reply posted on 13-4-2005 @ 04:07 AM by NWguy83
Originally posted by SwitchbladeNGC

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This one looks to be a U-2, but there are some differences. Possibly a variant? [edit on 12-4-2005 by Seekerof]


Convair XB-46 Bomber

Length : 32.2m
Wing Span : 34.5m
Hight : 8.4m
Wing Area : 119.5 Sqare Meter
All-Up Weight : 41,314Kg
Empty Weight : 21,800Kg
Engine : General Electric J35-C-3 Turbojet (1,816Kg) X 4
Max Speed : 877Km/h
Cluse Speed : 700Km/h
Service Ceiling : 13,100m
Crew : 3
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