Awesome stuff, but I don't know if the Human body can take such speeds within Earths atmosphere...
The goal of the project is to eventually enable the U.S. military to strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour
Oh! That explains it.
Foxnews
An unmanned aircraft that can travel at the breakneck speed of 20 times the speed of sound will take off Wednesday from an Air Force base in California for a test flight.
The Falcon HTV-2 is an arrow-shaped aircraft that launches on a rocket, separates and then glides at hypersonic speeds of 13,000 mph through the Earth’s atmosphere. (To put it in perspective, it would take less than 12 minutes to fly from New York to Los Angeles.)
Wednesday’s launch marks the aircraft's second flight. In April 2010, the Falcon flew for nine minutes, including 130 seconds of Mach 22 to Mach 17 flight, according to DARPA, the military's research arm.
The goal of the second flight is to "validate our assumptions and gain further insight into extremely high Mach regimes that we cannot fully replicate on the ground," Air Force Maj. Chris Schulz said in a DARPA news release.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Experimental Aircraft to Go From Zero to 13,000 in Hypersonic Test Launch
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
"Maybe he was looking for the bathroom"
The family of the Yemeni who tried to break into a cockpit yelling "allahu akbar" said that "maybe he was looking for the bathroom".
I know everytime before I use the bathroom, I ram the door full steam while yelling the allahu akbar war cry. Daily Mail
The Yemeni man who was wrestled to the floor after pounding on the cockpit door of a plane approaching San Francisco may have mistaken it for the bathroom.
Rageit Almurisi cannot speak English very well and could have misunderstood the signs inside the jet, his cousin claimed.
The maths teacher, who was heard yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he allegedly battered the door, had also only been on three planes in his life and would have been unfamiliar with the layout.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
US investigates potential terrorist test run
The more You read about this the more it sounds like it will be Washed away !
I guess taping cell phones to your Pepto Bismol bottle , or taping several phones together is not a reason to raise a Red Flag ! let alone the Box cutters and the Knife !
CHRON
WASHINGTON — Two men arrested in Amsterdam may have been conducting a dry run for a potential terrorist attack, U.S. officials said Tuesday after a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutters were found in one of the men's luggage.
U.S. investigators are pursuing leads in Detroit, Birmingham, Ala.; and Memphis, Tenn., according to officials speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
The arrests come at a time of heightened alert just days before the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
On Sunday, authorities found the suspicious items — a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, multiple cell phones and watches taped together, and a knife and box cutter — in one of the men's checked luggage in Virginia. The man and his luggage were headed to separate international destinations, which also raised concerns.
None of the items found on the men or in their luggage violated U.S. security rules. But the items and the men's changing travel itinerary may have been a deliberate test of the U.S. aviation security system to determine what would raise red flags.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Body remains found on wheels of plane in Riyadh
It just does not pay to be late for your plane (I bet his luggage got there on time)
(Reuters) - Workers at Riyadh airport found the remains of a body on the tires of a plane which arrived from Beirut early Saturday, an airport source in Beirut said.
The source said some passengers on the Saudi Arabian airline Nas Air flight had reported seeing a man with a backpack running toward the plane shortly before it took off from Beirut.
They told the pilot what they had seen, the source said, but the flight continued to Saudi Arabia and the body was only discovered after the plane had landed and been inspected.
Saudi and Lebanese officials were trying to establish the identity of the dead person, the source said.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Polish President Feared Dead in Plane Crash
VOA
Russian officials say Polish President Lech Kaczynski is feared dead after his plane crashed in western Russia.
Officials say at least 87 people were killed in the crash. Polish officials have confirmed that the president was on the plane. Mr. Kaczynski's wife Maria was also among those on board.
The plane went down as it approached Smolensk airport.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Exclusive: Al Qaeda linked to rogue air network: U.S. official
Al Qaida Airlines!
You want it , we got it !
Cocaine , maryjane , Opiums ,heroins , Suicide bombers and crazy ass Pilots !
A free goat with every large shipment ! and fun suicide belts for the Kids !
Call now at 1-800-Allahknowsbest (SarcOff)
TIMBUKTU, Mali (Reuters) - In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11."
The document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one end of the air route, it said, are cocaine-producing areas in the Andes controlled by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the other are some of West Africa's most unstable countries.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, was ignored, and the problem has since escalated into what security officials in several countries describe as a global security threat.
The clandestine fleet has grown to include twin-engine turboprops, executive jets and retired Boeing 727s that are flying multi-ton loads of cocaine and possibly weapons to an area in Africa where factions of al Qaeda are believed to be facilitating the smuggling of drugs to Europe, the officials say.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been held responsible for car and suicide bombings in Algeria and Mauritania. Gunmen and bandits linked to the group have also stepped up kidnappings of Europeans, who are then passed on to AQIM factions seeking ransom payments.
The aircraft hopscotch across South American countries, picking up tons of cocaine and jet fuel, officials say. They then soar across the Atlantic to West Africa and the Sahel, where the drugs are funneled across the Sahara Desert and into Europe.
An examination of documents and interviews with officials in the United States and three West African nations suggest that at least 10 aircraft have been discovered using this air route since 2006. Officials warn that many of these aircraft were detected purely by chance. They warn that the real number involved in the networks is likely considerably higher.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Algeria protests at new U.S. air security rules
This is just another case of to F**king bad !
Maybe if people of the Muslim world , stood up and helped stop Terrorists A little more than they do now , then we would not have the problems we have at the Airports !
Take it from someone who flies quite often recently , It is not fun going through security on a normal day , But Now it is even tougher , longer and more aggravating , Thanks to another Muslim Douchebag who just wanted to blow people up for the good of his Cult like religion !
So Algeria Sit and spin on this one !
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest at Algeria's inclusion on a list of countries whose flights bound for the United States will be subject to extra security checks, state media reported.
The North African country is fighting an al Qaeda-linked insurgency but the violence has subsided significantly in the past few years and officials say they have stringent security measures in place, especially at airports.
Algeria's inclusion on the list -- announced by Washington after a botched attempt to blow up a Christmas Day flight bound for Detroit -- was "inappropriate, unjustified and discriminatory," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The Foreign Minister, Mr. Mourad Medelci, has summoned the ambassador of the United States of America in Algiers to express to him the Algerian government's strong protest over this measure," the official APS news agency said.
Algeria, a mainly Muslim energy exporter, has cooperated with the United States in the fight against violent Islamist militants.
The 14 countries on the U.S. list are Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.
Cuba and Nigeria have also complained about their inclusion in the list.
Hugo Chavez claims Venezuelan jets intercepted US jet
Hugo Chavez has claimed that 2 Venezuelan F16s have intercepted a US P3 aircraft in Venezuelan airspace. Chavez stated that the violation was a provocation to war.
I think that Chavez has been chewing on too much coca leaves recently. This guy is a classic paranoid. He believes everyone around Venezuela is trying to start a war with him.
Rueters
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he ordered two F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice entered Venezuelan skies on Friday, but Washington said none of its planes flew over the South American country's airspace.
Brandishing a photo of the plane, which he described as a P-3, Chavez said the overflight was the latest violation of Venezuelan airspace by the U.S. military from its bases on the Netherlands' Caribbean islands and from neighboring Colombia.
"They are provoking us ... these are warplanes," he said.
Chavez said the F-16s escorted the U.S. plane away after two incursions lasting 15 and 19 minutes each.
A spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department denied Chavez's assertion, saying in an e-mail: "We can confirm no U.S. military aircraft entered Venezuelan airspace today. As a matter of policy we do not fly over a nation's airspace without prior consent or coordination."
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Obama calls bomb attempt an intelligence "screw-up"
"We dodged a bullet but just barely," the White House quoted him as telling the security chiefs. "It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked, and that is not acceptable."
Dodged a Bullet , That is a great understatement !
If The Obama administration really wants to clamp down on security loopholes , then I have a major suggestion For them ...
Try looking at Al Qaida and the Taliban along with Al Shabaab and Hamas As Terrorists !
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he vowed urgent action to plug holes in air security.
Sharpening his tone as he sought to limit political fallout over the intelligence breakdown, Obama said spy agencies had enough information to uncover the December 25 plot to blow up a Detroit-bound transatlantic flight from Amsterdam but failed to "connect those dots."
On Obama's first full day back from his Hawaii vacation, he faced the challenge of spotlighting national security -- suddenly pushed to the top of his agenda -- while not looking distracted from other pressing public concerns like reducing double-digit U.S. unemployment.
"We have to do better and we will do better. And we will do it quickly," Obama said after a two-hour meeting with his national security team to discuss what he has called "human and systemic failures" in the Christmas Day incident.
Obama used his sharpest language behind closed doors, telling more than two dozen security chiefs gathered in the Situation Room, "This was a screw-up that could have been disastrous," according to the White House.
"We dodged a bullet but just barely," the White House quoted him as telling the security chiefs. "It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked, and that is not acceptable."
Friday, January 1, 2010
Panty bomber and Al-Awlaki did have a face to face meet.
Umar the panty bomber: Please note his eminently profilable forehead prayer bump. --->
Well, what do you know? Isolated extremist, President Obama? I think not.
From MSNBC:
The extent of the contacts between the cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, and the plane suspect are growing more apparent as investigators continue their probe.
A U.S. intelligence official said Thursday that "there was probably a face-to-face encounter" between Aulaqi and the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, during a stay in Yemen before the Nigerian man flew to Amsterdam and boarded Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Separately, a top Yemeni government official said Abdulmutallab had probably met with suspected al-Qaeda operatives in a house that had been used by Aulaqi.
The house was subsequently destroyed in a Dec. 24 U.S.-backed Yemeni airstrike targeting an apparent meeting of suspected al-Qaeda leaders. (Ed.Note: So Umar bought his ticket on the 16th, the two Yemeni airstrikes took place on the 17th and 24th. He flew into Detroit on the 25th. Looks like we were a day late and a dollar short - and just plain damn lucky his underpants fizzled.)
Paging Said Ahmed. Paging Said Ahmed. Please pick up the white comment phone nearest you immediately.
These accusations are outragous. Sheik Anwar al- Awlaki a terrorist?
That is the most ludachris thing that I have ever heard about. I hope you all burn in the deapths of HELL. You crazy bastards.
Heh.
