Good Monday Morning
I hope that you all had a great weekend. Mine was good and pain level very low. The pump is doing its job. I did get the email back up down to almost 300 This will be followed by another after I return from my doctor appointment to change out my dressing later this morning. There are couple nuggets in here that were sent to me a while ago. I will have to admit it is good see I made 5400
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Today in Naval History
August 3 2020
Today in Naval History
August 3
1804
Commodore Edward Preble's Mediterranean Squadron launches the first of a series of bombardments on the harbor of Tripoli. Designed to destroy the defending batteries and sink enemy ships, the bombardments are part of the blockade that Preble established in 1803.
1861
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles calls for designers to submit plans for ironclad warships to the Navy Department. The design, by inventor John Ericsson, is chosen for USS Monitor, a revolutionary armored ship, carrying her guns in a rotating turret.
1942
Mildred H. McAfee takes the oath of office to become the first female line officer. She is commissioned a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve and simultaneously undertakes the duties of being the first director of the newly-established WAVES ("Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service").
1943
PBM aircraft (VP 205) sinks German submarine (U 572), north of Dutch Giuiana. Also on this date, USS Buck (DD 420) sinks Italian submarine, Argento, off Tunisia.
1950
Marine Fighter Squadron Two Hundred Fourteen (VMF 214) operating from USS Sicily (CVE 118) attacks Chinju with rockets and incendiary bombs, in the first Marine Corps aviation mission against North Korea.
1958
USS Nautilus (SSN 571) becomes the first submarine to cross the "top" of the world during Operation Sunshine when the boat passes under an arctic ice cap at the North Pole. "For the world, our country, and the Navy - the North Pole," declared the boat's commanding officer, Cmdr. William R. Anderson. The mission had been personally authorized by President Eisenhower as a response to the USSR's Sputnik program.
2017
Richard V. Spencer is sworn in as the 76th secretary of the Navy. Spencer, a Connecticut native, graduated from Rollins College in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Upon graduation he joined the United States Marine Corps and served as an H-46 pilot until 1981.
Thanks to CHINFO
Executive Summary:
•Washington Post's David Ignatius wrote about Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday's response to USS Bonhomme Richard fire.
•Media report that search and rescue operations ended for seven Marines and one Sailor, who went missing in an amphibious vehicle accident last week.
•Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported on upcoming RIMPAC 2020.
Today in History: August 3
1347 Six burghers of the surrounded French city of Calais surrender to Edward III of England in hopes of relieving the siege.
1492 Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his voyage to the new world.
1546 French printer Etienne Dolet, accused of heresy, blasphemy and sedition, is hanged and burned at the stake for printing reformist literature.
1553 Mary Tudor, the new Queen of England, enters London.
1610 Henry Hudson of England discovers a great bay on the east coast of Canada and names it for himself.
1692 French forces under Marshal Luxembourg defeat the English at the Battle of Steenkerque in the Netherlands.
1805 Muhammad Ali becomes the new ruler of Egypt. I had to look it up
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The process of Muhammad Ali's seizure of power was a long three way civil war between the Ottoman Turks, Egyptian Mamluks, and Albanian mercenaries. It lasted from 1803 to 1807 with the Albanian Muhammad Ali Pasha taking control of Egypt in 1805, when the Ottoman Sultan acknowledged his position.
1807 The trial of Aaron Burr begins. He is accused of plotting the secession of New England.
1864 Federal gunboats attack but do not capture Fort Gains, at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
1882 Congress passes the Immigration Act, banning Chinese immigration for ten years.
1908 Allan Allensworth files the site plan for the first African-American town, Allensworth, California.
1911 Airplanes are used for the first time in a military capacity when Italian planes reconnoiter Turkish lines near Tripoli.
1914 Germany declares war on France.
1916 Sir Roger Casement is hanged for treason in England.
1945 Chinese troops under American General Joseph Stilwell take the town of Myitkyina from the Japanese.
1958 The first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, passes under the North Pole.
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces plans to send 45,000 more troops to Vietnam.
1972 Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces formation of his new group, Wings.
1975 The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated.
1977 Radio Shack unveils TRS-80 personal computer, which with Apple and Commodore would form the "1977 Trinity." Its price and Radio Shack's established retail outlets made it a bestseller for several years.
1990 The US commits naval forces to the Persian Gulf region in the wake of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
2004 Statue of Liberty's pedestal reopens to visitors after being closed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 3, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
3 August
1904: Capt Thomas S. Baldwin made the first circuit flight in an airship equipped with a Curtiss motor at Oakland. This was the first successful powered airship flight in the US. (21)
1938: Through 12 August, Maj Vincent J. Meloy led three B-17s of the 2 BG at Langley Field on a goodwill mission to Bogota, Colombia. (21)
1942: The US began work on its top secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. (4)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Lt Gen George E. Stratemeyer, FEAF Commander, ordered Fifth Air Force to destroy key transportation facilities between the 37th and 38th parallels in Korea in FEAF Interdiction Campaign No. 1. (17) Marine fighters began operations over Korea. (16) (24) SA-16 amphibious rescue aircraft began flying sorties along the Korean coast to retrieve U.S. pilots forced down during operations. (28)
1954: The Navy's YF2Y-1 Sea Dart, a hydro-skifighter and the world's fastest water-based plane, exceeded the speed of sound in a test flight at San Diego. (24)
1956: The first missile wing in the USAF and USAFE, the 42924st Tactical Missile Wing, established.
1963: Sam Miller and Louis Fodor completed a round-the-world flight from New York and return in 46 hours 28 minutes to set a FAI record. (9)
1965: The first firing of a Lance battlefield missile from its self-propelled launchers took place at White Sands Missile Range.
1969: Members of the Alaskan Air Command helped put out Alaska's worst forest fire of the year.
1972: The F-15 Eagle fighter completed its first supersonic flight. It reached Mach 1.5 during a 45- minute test flight at Edwards AFB.
1973: The USAF accepted its first F-5E for flight testing at Edwards AFB. (3)
1981: USAF air traffic controllers manned civilian airport facilities in the US to replace striking air controllers. The USAF's assistance allowed civilian air operations to continue service despite the widespread strike. (26)
1982: The YA-10B flew its first test flight at Edwards AFB in the night attack evaluation program. The two-seat model allowed a safety observer to fly behind the pilot. (3)
1987: Martin Marietta rolled out its first converted Titan II space launch vehicle in a ceremony at its Denver facilities. NASA powered up the Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center to check out modifications made since the 1986 Challenger accident, marking a major milestone in the shuttle's return to flight.
1994: A B-52 launched a research satellite using a Pegasus rocket. (16) (26)
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Aircraft Assembly
Incredible selection of the manufacturing process of WW II aircraft, LOTS of them - 7 pages to scroll through..
Plants, production lines, very impressive how we industrialized to meet the mission in the 40's. Mostly WWII, but the odd more modern aircraft too. Not just US...
Don't start this at bedtime, you'll be up all night.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… When Naval Aviation Roared… Tales of the Brave and Bold… #18: "A tale twice told"…
August 2, 2020Bear Taylor0 Comments
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers and air crewmen who carried the air war into the heartland of North Vietnam in the years of Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968)…
GOOD MORNING. It is Monday, 3 August 2020, and Faithful Scribe has a "twice told tale to tell." But first a quick look at what was going on in the United States fifty years ago (3-9 August 1970).
ON THE HOME FRONT. A quote from Clara Bingham's WITNESS TO THE REVOLUTION: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year (August 1969-August 1970) America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul, Page 454-5:
"Nixon's Vietnamization Policy, which reduced American ground troops and increased the air war against North Vietnam, had an unintended consequence. Between 1968 and 1970, 200,000 Vietnam vets, many wounded, shell-shocked, and disillusioned with the war, came home to a country in turmoil and transition. Their war stories exposed the futility of the conflict and the grisly truth of what was really happening on the ground in Veitnam. As they began to meet, rap, and organize, the vets brought new vitality and credibility to the peace movement. Images of vets and antiwar rallies in their tattered army jackets, or in wheelchairs with long hair holding signs saying 'End the War in Vietnam' and 'We Won't Fight Another Rich Man's War,' terrified the Nixon administration. Realizing the power of their message, the FBI targeted the vets for infiltration, surveillance, and disruption. FBI files on the activities of Vietnam Veterans Against the War covered 19,978 pages."… Unquote…
Historian Victor Davis Hanson recently (July 2020) opined: "In the 1960s and early 1970s, the United States was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country's attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The Vietnam War and widespread college deferments were likely fuel that ignited prior peaceful civil disobedience…. The 60s revolution introduced the country to everything from hippies, communes, free love, mass tattooing, common place profanity, rampant drug use, rock music and high divorce rates to the war on poverty, massive government growth, feminism, affirmative action and race/gender/ethnic college curricula." Hanson compares the 60s generational revolution and our current cultural revolution and concludes that the 2020 revolution is "far more dangerous."… "America is far less resilient, and a far more divided, indebted and vulnerable target than it was in 1965."… Faithful Scribe notes, as a divided nation fifty years ago, the United States lost a war to a third rate country. Hopelessly divided in 2020, the un-United States is on the precipice of losing our constitutional republic…
ON THE BATTLEFIELD. American losses on the battlefields of Southeast Asia continued at the rate of 100 KIA/week while the South Vietnamese were losing 450. Enemy losses were averaging 1,400/week…
PEACE TALKS. At a meeting of the National Security Council on 21 July 1970, President Nixon provided explicit guidance for our side's negotiations in Paris, where little or no progress had been made for several months…
"President:… What do we do in the next two weeks (in Paris Peace talks)? I feel it would be a mistake for Ambassador Bruce to go into Paris with a whole new offer by August 15. If we don't believe the enemy will take it, the timing relates to the effects here. It would be better to be more deliberate. Bruce should meet the negotiators on the other side and see if we can get private talks, and give reformulation of what we have already presented. There is no need to prove something by hurrying; we should be deliberate. I have taken care to be sure to say our Ambassador has latitude to talk and I am anxious to hear his views. As to the enemy, to move toward them quickly might reduce our chances of their taking the offer. They might see a quick move as the timing comes closer to early September, in my view. This gives time for Bruce and Bunker to get set."…
IN THE AIR WAR (3-9 August 1970). One fixed wing aircraft was lost in Southeast Asia during the week. A VA-12 "Flying Ubangis" A-4C Skyhawk got a "cold cat shot" on USS SHANGRI-LA. The pilot successfully ejected and was rescued…
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED. Tale #18, first told in my RTR post on the 50th anniversary of the USS CORAL SEA/CVW-15 strike on the "bridges of Haiphong" on 17 September 1967, was an abbreviated version of the CINCPACFLT document from which I drew the facts and details of the mission. (Refer to the RTR archives, request posts made in September 2017, and troll down to the 18 September post, "Isolating Haiphong from the Hinterland." See Ripple Salvo #561 therein for the short version of the CVW-15 18 Sept 1967 tale.) A more complete version of the mission follows, and is a verbatim account of the original documents I located in 1985 at the Navy Annex in Suitland, Maryland. This is but one of thousands of such documents contained in eight cardboard boxes and marked for disposal and destruction that I discovered after a six-month search. I was able to obtain temporary custody of the eight cartons of CINCPACFLT Vietnam War award recommendation and approval documents. Originally classified as Secret or Confidential, all were stamped with the notation "downgraded at three-year intervals, declassified after twelve years." The collection was an orphan, and I was able to give the eight boxes two months of "foster care." During this period I was able to duplicate by notes and copies several hundred of the declassified reports of Naval Aviation strike operations during the years of Rolling Thunder. My effort preserved only about 25% of the entire cache of historial documents. Months after returning the eight cartons of one-of-a-kind pages of history to Suitland, I learned that the collection of originals including maps, photographs and eye-witness testimony, had been destroyed on schedule and in spite of my recommendation to the custodian of the collection that the eight cartons of precious documents be preserved in perpetuity. Not everybody has a "sense of history."
Several thousand Naval Aviation award recommendations containing the "summaries of action" and the names and actions of Rolling Thunder participants that I had obtained were delivered to the Vietnam Archives at Texas Tech University in 2004 and are retained there in the Rear Admiral Jeremy Taylor collection. I have retained about 200 of the documents from 1967 operations, which are the source for my weekly "When Naval Aviation Roared" posts for this website.
The text of the 17 September 1967 USS CORAL SEA/CVW-15 awards recommendation submitted by Commanding Officer, USS CORAL SEA on 11 January 1968, and endorsed by COMSEVENTHFLT on 12 February 1968, is presented here as "Tale #18" and representative of the collection available at the Texas Tech Vietnam Archives… Quote…
"On 17 September 1967 the USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43) strike group was scheduled as the second major assault force of the day to attack two major railway bridges in Haiphong, North Vietnam. The primary target assigned was the formidable Haiphong Railroad/Highway Bridge, a double, through truss, steel bridge, 300-feet long by 20-feet wide with highway passage on the lower deck and a one meter guage railway on the upper deck. This bridge was particularly significant as it provided the only railway access to the port facility of Haiphong, the major transshipment point for all North Vietnam. Its destruction would seriously hamper the logistic efforts within the country. The second bridge was a 300×25 bowstring truss highway bridge of six spans, a concrete deck, and a vertical lift center span to enable water traffic to pass. These two bridges were vital links in the railway and highway systems linking Haiphong to Hanoi, from whence all logistic flow southward toward South Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh trail originated. Destruction of these arteries would seriously effect the North Vietnamese ability to wage war. In defense of this strategic area, the enemy had deployed 22 surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites, eight of which were known to be occupied, and 61 antiaircraft artillery (AAA) sites, 23 of whcih were known occupied. Additionally, untold numbers of automatic weapons were emplaced throughout the area to force the strike aircraft up into the highest surface-to-air missile threat altitudes. Recent experience by pilots flying over these sites indicated that the gunners were well-trained and could provide accurate tracking, sector and barrage antiaircraft fire. An enemy aircraft threat was also prevalent due to the fact that Kien An Airfield located south of the city was able to support the most modern Sin0-Soviet jet aircraft, and the bridge targets were well within the range of MiGs operating from Phuc Yen Airfield north of Haiphong. Prestrike planning emphasis was placed on tactics to best divide, supress and evade the AAA/SAM threat are summarized as follows:
a. To divide the enemy fire, the CORAL SEA strike force would split in two basic groups for an attack from the north, and the other to proceed straight in for an attack from the south.
b. To suppress the enemy fire, Iron Hand elements were to launch their weapons against known occuped SAM sites at Coast-in-Point in an effort to prevent them from employing their radars and associated guidance equipment. From there, the Iron Handers would set up defensive patterns to the southeast and southwest of the target to cover the balance of the attack and egress phases of the strike aircraft at CIP and bomb known AAA sites or those observed to be firing. These suppression attacks were to be timed so that their bombs would detonate just as the strike aitcraft commenced their attacks. In addition, the CORAL SEA strike group planned to closely follow a USS INTREPID (CVS-11) Alpha Strike on the Haiphong Railroad yards west of the city in order to take advantage of the opportunity to further divide the enemy fire.
c. To evade enemy fire, formations were set forth that would permit junking and yet still retian group integrity. Spacing between separate aircraft, sections and divisions to prevent multiple casualties from a SAM detonation was set forth in detail and based on approved and practiced VX-5 defensive tactics. The importance and use of DECM equipment in the target area was also brought out. The strike group commander launched at 1240 local, and rendezvoused over the carrier. The INTREPID/CVW-10 strike force launched simultaneously and rendezvoused over INTREPID. Inflight refueling was accomplished over the force for those aircraft so requiring and departure enroute was then taken, utilizing vectors and communications assistance from the E-2A aircraft. Heavy cloud cover precluded visual navigation enroute, so the escorting F-4B aircraft provided additional radar vectors which permitted coast-in precisely at the predetermined and briefed point. The CORAL SEA/CVW-15 strike force fell in five miles astern of the INTRPID/CVW-10 goup prior to coast-in as both groups headed for their respective targets in the Haiphong complex. At this point the CORAL SEA northern strike group (six A-4 strike, two A-4 Iron Hand and two F-4 flak suppression aircraft) led by CDR Verlyn DANIELS detached and proceeded in a northerly arc around the city of Haiphong. The southern strike element (five A-4 strike, two A-4 Iron Hand, two F-4 flak suppression aircraft) led by CDR Tom WOOLCOCK coasted in just south of Cat Bi Airfield and immediately encountered heavy enemy antiaircraft fire. The assigned Iron Hand aircraft, led by LCDR Bill COOK (south) and LCDR Harold BARNHART (north), fired Shrike missiles to suppress the most threatening of the surface-to-air missile sites.
d. The coordinated split attack on the two bridges by the CORAL SEA bombers went as planned with all bombers maintained formation integrity in the face of intense enemy AAA and executed devastatingly precise attacks on the bridges with all bombs observed to cover the bridges. No bombs were observed to impact in the nearby residential areas adjoining the approaches to the two bridges. Enemy fire was described as accurate and intense by the dive bombers but no aircraft were hit in the bold attack. The SAM activity amounted to activated radar and two SAMs that were observed by the VFP-63 RF-8 on his post strike BDA run a few minutes after the strike force egressed from the target to go ballistic and explode harmlessly.
e. Assessment of the post strike photographs showed superior results. One approach span and one over water span on the Highway Bridge was clearly dropped. The east and west approaches to this bridge were also completely destroyed. The previously undamaged south end of the railroad/highway bridge was heavily damaged with holes in both decks of the bridge making the structure unusable. Both approaches to this bridge were also severely interdicted.
"This Air Wing FIFTEEN major assault against the Railroad/Highway Bridge, Haiphong, North Vietnam on 17 September 1967 was one of the strikes referred to in COMSEVENTHFLT's Confidential message of 20 Sept 67, which is quoted in full:
'Key targets in the plan to isolate Haiphong from the hinterland are the highway and railroad bridges located in the environs of the port city. It is noted that a significant advance towards the realization of our objectives has been achieved by the CORAL SEA and the sharpshooters of CVW-15 dropping of the west span and east approach ramp of the Haiphong highway bridge and the cratering of the highway/railroad bridge. A special note has been taken and the determination and aggressiveness of CTG77.3 forces of Task Force 77 during operations on 17 and 18 September while striking targets in heavily defended Haiphong complex on six different occasions. The excellent results achieved are a fitting tribute to yur teamwork, dedication and courage. Well done!' /s/ ADM John J. HYLAND… " End of quote…
BITS OF RIBBON. The award of the DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS for extraordinary heroism on the 17 September CORAL SEA strike was recommended for CDR Thomas E. WOOLCOCK, XO, VA-153; LTJG David W. READ, VA-155; LTJG Phillip K. SHERMAN, vfp-63; CDR Verlyne W. DANIELS, VA-155; ENSIGN Frederick J. FORTNER, VA-155; and LCDR William. P. COOK, VA-155.
In addition, COMSEVENTHFLT approved individual AIR MEDALS for CDR Richard J. SHULTE, LCDR George W. McDONALD and LTJG Tonu PLAKK. NAVY COMMENDATION MEDALS with Combat Distinguishing Device were approved for LT Gary L. STARBIRD and LTJG Jon R. HOLDER.
Despite the success, heroics and acknowledgement of the courage and aggressiveness of the CVW-15 strike pilots, COMSEVENTHFLT "approved no award for the below listed personnel, however, the mission described in the CORAL SEA recommendations for awards may be used for Strike Credit towards eligibility for the Air Medal under the Strike Flight System." In other words, two points. One tenth of a Strike Flight Air Medal… Twelve brave, bold tailhookers got no ribbon that day… CDR Bobbie Williams, LCDR Daniel O'Connell, LCDR Charles Earnest, LT Gary Holmes, LTJG Kenneth Middleton, LTJG Samuel Harris; LTJG Joseph Dantone, LCDR Lorraine Renner, LCDR Harold Barnett, LTJG Eugene Giffen, LTJG Robert Tracy and LT Richard Stearns… I guess the 7th Fleet Awards board didn't get the message from their boss, ADM HYLAND….
All are remembered here with high respect and enduring admiration…
NEXT POST. Tale #19. LCDR Ray FOX and his VA-34 nugget wingmen wipe out a lucrative target ten miles north of Haiphong Harbor with verve and guts that will water your eyes. Their story from an especially memorable flight on 23 June 1967….
Lest we forget… Bear
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All "Lost Sheep" Tailhookers, Attention to Brief!
This message will be like "preaching to the choir" for most, but it's intended for the "lost sheep" Tailhookers" - those who were, but are no longer, Tailhook Assn. (THA) members. And, for the "never were" Tailhookers. I sent out a general plea for THA membership renewal in March. The only "lost sheep" I know of that responded to that email and actually came back into the "Tailhook Flock" was John Porter. I know that because he called and thanked me for the reminder to renew his expired membership. (Thanks, John). I'm repeating my appeal here because THA needs to build the membership roles . So, if you're one of the "lost sheep" at lease give this serious consideration! If you're still a THA member, THANKS! And, if you've never been a member, shame on you on you! Here's your chance to make up for never joining.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every facet of our society, and the Tailhook Assn.(THA) is no exception. It has now caused the cancellation of Hook 2020, which is a body blow to the THA's financial position. That, added to the continuing erosion of the THA membership roles, is alarming - a "fuel low level light" if you will.
We're all products of naval aviation training and naval aviation service. We all wouldn't be who we are today without having been a part naval aviation. The THA - a fraternal, non-profit organization - depends on a solid, active membership base to carry out its mission to educate and inform the public of the proper role of the aircraft carrier and carrier aviation in the national defense system - and to keep the naval aviation legacy (our legacy) alive for future generations. In addition to helping the THA membership grow and prosper you will receive the quarterly Hook magazine - which is a world class periodical with both historic and current stories about naval aviation.
The THA needs our membership support now more than ever. To that end, the THA board and the Tailhook Education Foundation (TEF) board are embarked on a membership drive with a goal of signing up at least 3,000 new (or renewed) members. Each and every membership counts and contributes to the THA mission. Please be a part of the team.
Membership is not that expensive - most of us will probably spill more at the bar over the course of a membership than it costs to sign up - 1 yr ($45), 3yr ($120), 5 yr ($195) or the most economical deal - a lifetime membership. For those over 59 (which mostly includes all of us) you can get an age prorated discount as a lifetime member by calling 1-800-322-4665. With lifetime membership you don't ever again have to worry about renewing. Do it now - before you forget. And, if you know of other "lost sheep" who aren't a THA member, please pass this along to them. Spread the word to all your former squadron mates and on other email blogs and strings you may be part of. Membership, membership, membership!
Also, for those who aren't former naval aviators, but are still interested in actively supporting Naval Aviation, anyone can join THA as an "associate member" at the same rate as naval aviators. Call 1-800-322-4665 or go to www.tailhook.net
Mention my name when you renew and I'll get an "OK, 3 Wire" on the "Greenie Board." That and about $4 bucks will get me a coffee at Starbucks.
Thanks, and stay well.
Fingers
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The Fastest Speed Ever Reached by a Manmade Object?
In case you ever wondered what the worlds fastest boat was…well, on October 8th, 1978, the jet powered watercraft named "Spirit of Australia" reached 317.596 mph on the Tumut River. This aquatic feat was made possible by adding a Westinghouse J34 jet engine to the rear of this racing boat.
On land, the worlds fastest land vehicle is none other than the Thrust SSC, which set the world land speed record, on 15th of October 1997, when it achieved the speed of 763 mph, and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.
The worlds fastest aircraft is the air breathing Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft, that was operated by the United States Air Force. It was developed as a black project reconnaissance aircraft by Lockheed and its Skunk Works division. Faster than a rifle bullet, the SR-71 broke the world aircraft speed record when she reached over Mach 3.3 or 3,529kph(2,193 miles per hour) on July 28th 1976.
Amazingly, the Blackbird does not have a top speed. Her engines and airframe could reach much greater speeds, except she is limited by one thing...temperature. If the SR was allowed to fly as fast as she could, she would continue her acceleration until literally beginning to melt from atmospheric friction.
The worlds fastest rocket powered aircraft was the hypersonic North American X-15, operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The X-15's official world record for the highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft, was set on October 1967, when William J. Knight flew at Mach 6.70 at 102,100 feet, at a speed of 4,520 miles per hour.
During liftoff, the space shuttle weighs in at more than 4.5 million pounds. At this weight, the shuttle slowly accelerates over period of eight seconds, she reaches 100mph, and has already consumed more than one and a half million pounds of fuel. At the two minute mark, the shuttle is approximately 28 miles downrange, and traveling more than 3,000 mph, the propellant in the two boosters is exhausted and the booster casings jettisoned. Once orbit is achieved, the Shuttle reaches 17,180 mph, roughly equivalent to Mach 23 at sea level.
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During the fourth crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the second to orbit the Moon. Apollo 10 was the "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing. Its purpose was testing all components and procedures just short of actual landing. The Apollo Lunar Module (LM) was flown to a descent orbit within 8.4 nautical miles of the lunar surface, then firing her rocket to return to lunar orbit. On the way back to Earth, the crew of Apollo 10 in the Command Service Module named Charlie Brown, reached a top speed of 24,791 miles per hour, or 11.8 kilometres per second, on the 26th of May, 1969. This was the highest speed ever reached by a manned vehicle.
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5th, 1977, to study the outer Solar System. Having operated for 42 years, 2 months and 22 days, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network, and is currently at a distance of 13.7 billion miles from Earth as of November 4, 2019. Not only one of the fastest manmade objects, now travelling at over 38 thousand miles per hour, it is also the most distant man-made object from Earth.
SO what was the fastest manmade object in human history?
Well, it wasn't what you thought was it?
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Thanks to Dr. Rich
Dirty Harry... Best Quotes ... great!!
Thanks to Michael T. …
Where's Dirty Harry when we need him?? I'd love to hear a cop say "Make my day ..." at some of the riots!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1xp9hYDl4
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