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Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin

this is a discussion within the Everything Else Community Forum; Originally Posted by papz It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you're a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government's best engineers at its far-out ...

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Old 04-24-2012, 10:24 AM   #4
 
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Originally Posted by papz View Post
It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you're a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government's best engineers at its far-out research agency.


After an eight-month investigation, DARPA concluded that even though the HTV-2 was expected to lose some of its skin mid-flight, "larger than anticipated portions of the vehicle's skin peeled from the aerostructure," the agency said in a statement Friday.





How sick is that?
.... for a sec, I thought you were talking about condoms ....
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