B-27 Switchblade, page 3

Ghost, wrong aircraft, that's the F/A-37 Talon used in the film, not the AX-17 Switchblade.

Foward swept wings are highly plausible, as the X-29 and the Su-47a Bekrut has shown us.

Now for the Sr-71 to reach speeds of Mach 9 under the atmosphere, god would need to be on top of the aircraft powering it using fairies. Now, I don't know where any of you got the idea, but despite popular belief, those rockets on the sides, yea they can only push so much in the atmosphere, it isn't a scramjet folks, only about 72,000lbs of thrust each, the SR-71 turns out to be pretty heavy, we always have that weight to thrust ratio to account for right?

Anyways, yea operations speeds for the SR-71 are probably Mach 3.17 as has been stated before, but the airframe would never sustain Mach 6 or higher in the Atmosphere, perhaps above 150,000 FT, but I'm not a genius on the matter at hand.

What I know of the AX-17 Switchblade is that it was a design to be a fighter attack bomber, stealth, and foward swept. It would reach high speeds, but it isn't an intercepter, so probably like speeds of Mach 2.6 or Mach 2.2.

Keep in mind, that depending on the job of the aircraft, is where the speed will come into play, the F-14 is an Air Fleet Defense Fighter, commonly mistaken for an intercepter, but formally known by the pilots as an Air Fleet Defense fighter. It could probably reach speeds of mach 3, but what would the conditons have to be?

Did I hit everything? Is there anything else needing clearing up?

Don't mean to be offensive, but seriously folks, lets try using some logic, not what websites post, but what you all believe, if anyone has the slightest idea of physics, just sit down, and think for a minute, for an aircraft to go very fast, what would the conditions have to be? What would the factors include? Building an aircraft is nothing close to easy, it is very difficult and getting it to work properly and fly high and fast, is possibly one of the most difficult engineering jobs around, right up there with space shuttle design and structure design. It is hard folks, so it's not suprisingy that people may not completely understand the concepts, it is a hard topic, and to fully comprehend what's going on, you would need to be very smart, I'm not saying I comprehend it, because I know very little about physics, but I'm just trying to do some logical thinking here. Well sometimes it's better to sit and think, than to go on the internet, find potential sources, and just post like crazy, no?

Shattered OUT...