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A plane faster than Concorde with fares a quarter of the price?

11/9/2017

A Colorado startup wants to build supersonic passenger planes faster than Concorde but with fares a quarter of the price -- and Virgin Galactic has just got on board.

The Boom airplane would travel at Mach 2.2 -- more than twice the speed of sound and 2.6 times faster than any other airliner -- and fly from New York to London in 3.4 hours.
That's San Francisco to Tokyo in 4.7 hours or Los Angeles to Sydney in six.
That transatlantic trip cuts the standard seven-hour journey by more than half.
With a round-trip price tag of $5,000 it's not exactly "affordable" travel, but for the world's business elite, it's a steal.

It's certainly piqued British entrepreneur Richard Branson's interest: On Wednesday, his Virgin Group optioned 10 planes.
The deal, if it's followed through, could be worth a reported $2 billion.
Boom has also optioned 15 additional planes to an unnamed European carrier, the firm told TechCrunch, racking up a potential income of $5 billion.
Despite the big figures, the reality of a supersonic passenger jet remains small.
Denver-based Boom is still working on a third-scale prototype that isn't slated to fly until 2017.

tags: supersonic airliner , boom , richard branson , nathan finneman , breed of speed , sirdrifto , speed of sound , mach 2

Watch an insane motorcycle pursuit from a cops perspective unfold on the streets of brazil

11/9/2017

Pretty sure the suspect didn't expect the motorcycle cop to have this much riding skill. Watch this intense high speed pursuit unfold on the steets of brazil

tags: breed of speed , motorcycle , brazil hot pursuit , nathan finneman , sirdrifto , motorcycle chase

U.S.Military’s Electromagnetic Railgun Shoots 100 miles at mach 7

11/8/2017

Check out this cannon and the way it works. The canon mechanism is based on the principle of homopolar motor: a pair of parallel conductors (the rails) are fed by an electric current. The projectile is placed making contact with both, to close the circuit. The current that is produced interacts with the strong magnetic fields generated by the passage of electricity through the conductors and this accelerates the projectile linearly in the direction of the rails.
The original idea of this device was to use it to shoot projectiles at high speed to destroy targets. However it is difficult to use as a weapon due to the enormous amount of energy required to operate with a minimum of efficiency and because the space occupied by the power supplies and capacitors used to generate the magnetic field makes it very difficult to transport For the infantry. Even so the United States Navy announced a test done on January 31, 2008 in order to equip their ships with this type of weapons. Leave your thoughts in the comment box below.

tags: breed of speed , railgun , insane gun , sirdrifto , nathan finneman , us military , electromagnetic railgun

Surviving an engine failure while flying straight up in a Pitts

11/8/2017

Chad Barber survived an engine failure during an aerobatics routine in a Pitts Special and it’s all on video.
What Happened
Chad had just completed a negative G maneuver followed by a four-point roll then a pitch up to vertical. At this point 22 seconds into the video, the engine hiccups and quits.
Trading altitude (2,500′) for airspeed, Chad dives in an attempt to aerodynamically re-start the engine. The blades turn a few times, but doesn’t restart the engine.
Twenty-one seconds after the engine quit, Chad is at 1,000’ and turning toward a gravel road. While setting himself up to land, he then uses the electric starter, which finally starts the engine.
Why It Happened
Like many aerobatic planes, the Pitts has an inverted fuel system. Chad’s Pitts has a 19 gallon fuel tank that feeds fuel into a flexible hose with a weight on the end called a flop tube. Gravity being a constant, both the fuel in the tank and the flop tube will always seek the “bottom” of the tank.

tags: breed of speed , pilot crash , pits engine stops , airplane almost crash , nathan finneman , sirdrifto ,

This is one of the best Vietnam Helicopter Videos you'll watch.

11/7/2017

If you love helicopters, then youll love this video. It shows some great scenes of the Vietnam war helicopters working hard in the jungle. Some gun camera scenes, etc. Just shows how much of an important roll the helicopter played in the war effort.

tags: breed of speed , helicopter, bell h1 , vietnam helicopter , attack helicopter , pilot , sirdrifto , nathan finneman

New Zealand crop duster and his turnaround times are amazing

11/7/2017

Just the take off and in itself is insane.. just watch the video. The Cresco, (Latin for "I grow"), combines a short take off and landing performance with a large load carrying capability. During development, feedback from operators of the Fletcher aircraft regarding areas in which the Fletcher was lacking was taken into account, however the strength of the original design was retained. Without compromising the ruggedness, and with a strong focus on ensuring that there was no additional weight in the aircraft, the Cresco emerged as a well loved aircraft optimised for operations off semi-prepared farm strips in hill country.
With its tricycle landing gear and rear mounted hopper the Cresco is unique in agricultural aircraft and, through this configuration, allows for safe operations off these sloping hill strips. The Cresco has the advantage of forward visibility and wind gust capabilities lacking in tail dragger aircraft with forward mounted hoppers.
In other roles it is able to take a pilot and allows seating for up to seven passengers or twelve skydivers, and can get to 14,000 ft (4,267m) in 12 minutes.

tags: breed of speed , nathan finneman , crop dusting insane , insane landing , amazing crop dusting

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