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Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 06:21
‘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.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, has made public its best guess about what might have caused its unmanned arrowhead-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2) to suddenly lose contact and crash in the Pacific just a few minutes after slicing through the sky at Mach 20 last August: it was going so fast its skin peeled off.’
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Categories: Science/Astronomy
2012, airplane, Airstrike, DARPA, Government, Military, science, USA
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