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To: Gauguin who wrote (9685)	4/13/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Mach three plus. Twenty-two hundred mph. That's SR-71 Blackbird speed, and its leading edges are doing 650 or so degrees Fahrenheit. That's why it has to be built of special materials. Mach two will merely give you the mother of ski rashes. And a bad case of deafness. Wind noise... I'm assuming your face is flammable. At which point I'd counsel the use of any sort of soap.

To: Gauguin who wrote (9685)	4/13/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I hope you plan on enlightening us as to why you would want your face to catch fire. It's really bothering me. I've been thinking about it for the past ten minutes. Is this a cheap way of getting a cosmetic facepeel? That's the only thing I can think of.

To: Gauguin who wrote (9685)	4/13/1998 9:06:00 PM
From: username	Respond to of 71178

<<for your face to catch on fire?> I see I really missed some good stuff here. Interesting question. I think one's face would blow off prior to an actual ignition.

To: Gauguin who wrote (9685)	4/14/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

I've been ruminating on the "near sea level" part". If I think back on all those episodes of Wings, I'm led to remember that all the really fast stuff (SR-71s, MiG-25s and such) operate at nosebleed altitudes. Sixty thousand feet and up. At sea level, most hot military hardware tends to travel near the speed of sound. I think the old F-105 Thunderchief was good for Mach One-point-low on the deck. Nowadays, I suspect the fastest plane down low is the B1B bomber. I think I remember 900 mph on deck, which is Mach 1.2 on a cold day. "A Bone running scared on the deck - nothing is gonna catch it." Bone is that endearing nickname Air Force folks reserve for this two-hundred-ton nuclear penetration bomber. The B1B is not built with any special heat shielding. So for that inimitable incendiary physiognomic phenomenon, a closed reaction drive system ("rocket") may be most suitable. A short cut is to use a "front-drive" rocket. Nyarf.