Klarinet Archive - Posting 000699.txt from 2001/04

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] "everyone knows" ..... correction
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:45:11 -0400

<><> I wrote:
One 'impossibility' that amused me was a rigorous proof by an
aeronautical engineer in the 1940s (1920s?) that airplanes will
absolutely never be able to fly faster than 300 mph

Well, I messed that one up! I should have looked the article up
before I posted.

After I received an email that a plane hit 460 mph in 1939, I did
look it up. The article (October 1928) actually said that a
plane/rocket/whatever would need to fly at an _altitude_ (not speed) of
300 miles in order not to be destroyed at speeds of 1000 mph.

My apologies.

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