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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by rsync on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:55PM (#11331320)
What will your pilots do, just as a for instance, if ... say a lone Cessna asks tower for his ground speed ... and then a bit later a navy F-18 pilot also asks tower for his ground speed ?

What will they do in that situation ?

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by bluehawk on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:59PM (#11331359)
Hilarious context, for those who haven't read it yet: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912704...
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by gregingelmo on Monday March 21, 2016 @07:57PM (#11333289)
Oh man what hilarious story! Thanks for posting it.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by ceocoder on Monday March 21, 2016 @06:28PM (#11332698)
specially if the F-18 pilot is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is.

I've read and re-read that story so many times, each reading results in a fresh batch of goosebumps. I'd love to read the book (Sled Driver, I think?), but it is over $500 on Amazon. I wish they either ordered another print OR published as an ebook.

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by tfe on Monday March 21, 2016 @06:32PM (#11332723)
There is an ebook version floating around the internet.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by dboreham on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:34PM (#11333500)
Yikes! I have two copies, having thought that I'd lost mine years ago -- bought a new one -- then found the original again.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by ceocoder on Monday March 21, 2016 @10:31PM (#11334039)
Are you interested in selling one of them? If so I promise to give it a very good home, I still have books from my childhood in great condition.

Someone emailed me a pdf (thank you!) but I'd love to be able to have a physical copy too.

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by kriro on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:15AM (#11335053)
If you feel like parting with one it would be cool to consider the pilot who posted the story (as he's lamenting that it's too expensive) :D
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by schwarrrtz on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:02PM (#11331390)
i think that depends on how badass the copilot is
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by bscholl on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:53PM (#11331920)
Brian Shul is a steely-eyed missile man. :-)
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by rory096 on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:28PM (#11333468)
Nitpick: Walt Watson is the back-seater in question — Brian Shul was just the guy on the stick (and the author of the story, of course).
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