Re: Boom Unveils Supersonic 'Baby Boom' (alt.binaries.pictures.aviation)

TDSOTF

2017/11/23 18:19

"Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote in
news:QqCdnRc0wsAmuorHnZ2dnUU7-RXNnZ2d@supernews.com:

> "Mitchell Holman"  wrote in message
> news:XnsA8367914E4814noemailattnet@216.166.97.131...
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>>    Like manned space flight, another field where America has ceded
>> leadership to Russia........
>
> Uh-huh: http://tinyurl.com/y8m5gxmu
>
> https://hushkit.net/2016/05/25/the-ten-worst-soviet-aircraft/
>
> https://www.wired.com/2008/07/gallery-top-10-worst-aircraft-ever/
>
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21029/worst-soviet-ai
> rcraft-ever-built/
>
> https://gizmodo.com/5893817/the-concordes-soviet-older-sister-that-just
> -couldnt-stop-crashing http://tinyurl.com/ya7bmz7s
>
> "The worst passenger airplane in the world is probably the Tupolev
> Tu-144, which operated scheduled passenger service from just 1977 to
> 1978.":
> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-worst-passenger-airplane-in-the-world
>
>
> Bounce, bounce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRr_rlDOIdQ

    I was referring to America abandoning manned
space flight and instead relying on the Russians
to get Americans into orbit.

    All they have to do is say "Nyet" and our
entire astronaut program collapses.

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