Mainframeguy
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Yea, read this on BBC news the other day.Mainframeguy said:Have a look here if you are interested in speed - this baby can easily manage Mach 7 and is designed to go about Mach 10!
To give you some idea how fast that might be a spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere may start about Mach 36 before the atmosphere starts to slow it down.
Alex_is_Axel said:is it real?
What about if the aircraft which was taking the picture was traveling at the same speed? Surly there wouldnt be a blur then.. right?
so like only 3,000 mph Seriously though, I am very disappointed with the UK news coverage if they got it so badly wrong... I'll complain somewhere! (Why is it I do not think an email will work? )X-Istence said:The pic you linked to is a computer generated model.
Second, it only reached mach 5, and not its intended 7 - 10, we watched it on nasa TV in school.