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May 1^st, 2003 at 7:09pm

Splash Ex Member

And away we go into the wild blue yonder!!!! Anyone tried the X15 and how do you like it?

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Reply #1 - May 1^st, 2003 at 7:24pm

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I think that it is very nice, however I couldn't quite get it up to speed.

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Reply #2 - May 1^st, 2003 at 7:36pm

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Yep, same here I could only get 1.65 Mach out of it and that was in a dive. I kept stalling at FL50!!!!! Interesting to fly tho' Grin

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Reply #3 - May 1^st, 2003 at 11:28pm

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did you guys try to launch at 45,000 ft to sort of mimic the launch when dropped from a B-52..........I guess you need to do this over Muroc too ....maybe the air will be better there ? Wink

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Reply #4 - May 2^nd, 2003 at 2:57am

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cool, gonna have to check it out Wink

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Reply #5 - May 2^nd, 2003 at 10:33am

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just downloaded it and about to crash er......I mean fly it

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Thou shalt maintain thine airspeed lest the ground shalt rise up and smite thee

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Reply #6 - May 2^nd, 2003 at 5:48pm

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LOL, you guys must have probs then, I took off from Nellis. Went vertical, plugged in the burners, went to 100,000 feet in less than a minute hehe. Also I got her up to mach 3.5.

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Reply #7 - May 2^nd, 2003 at 6:26pm

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No problems with speed, but when I shut the engine off and began the glide back to Edwards I went into a flat spin at 70,000 Embarrassed

but recovered at 50,000 Grin

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Landing was dodgy though, kinda sank into the dirt with the right rear leg, however I survived (didn't expect to 8))

If someone with multiple personality disorder threatens suicide, is it a hostage situation?

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Reply #8 - May 2^nd, 2003 at 8:27pm

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Well I finally got it, but had to play around with the a/c config file. FL100 in seconds - Awesome and hit 4.64M on the way back in - straight down, for awhile but then chickened out lol What a ride!!!! Not much to see up there at FL100 Is there? And she does have a tendancy to sink, even on take-off

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Reply #9 - May 3^rd, 2003 at 7:23am