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2005-10-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Japan launches outback supersonic test flight

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Posted by .com 2005-10-10 04:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Woomera? Home of Bluestreak

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-10 09:45|| 2005-10-10 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Bluestreak was a very successful if politically ill-fated rocket. Not one failed in 11 launches, an amazing record for the time, equalled only by the Saturn 1-B and the incomparable Saturn V. (The failures of the ELDO satellite launcher, for which Blue Streak provided the first stage, were caused by the European provided upper stages).

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-10-10 14:15|| 2005-10-10 14:15|| Front Page Top

#3 An earlier Japanese effort at a rocket-powered, though not supersonic, aircraft:

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka suicide bomb.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-10-10 14:20|| 2005-10-10 14:20|| Front Page Top

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