Concorde Successor

Only passing knowledge of the particular subject and sufficiently little to
make wide and sweeping generalistic barely researched statements. Bang on
for UKRM then! I'd slap £100 down if Hill's are giving odds on it appearing
in the next (say) 10 years.

 

Well this is interesting, I just googled around a bit and turned up
something unexpected but sticking to the XB-70 for a moment, it was (I
think) a SS honeycomb airframe with a titanium skin. In the case of the
SR-71 Lockheed already had experience of building SS planes but to reach
it's target range the Blackbird had to be superlight. They manufactured
millions of fastners and rivets etc. specially in Titanium as well. 93% of
the unladen weight was Titanium.

What I came upon was a suggestion that the fuselage actually had an external
plating of Inconel. Don't know if that can be true.
Interesting material, we used bucket shaped slugs of it to plug faulty
evaporator tubes at the welds on the underside of the header plates, this
isolated secondary cooling loop liquid sodium from H2O. You want to do that
Sir. Bastard sodium ions could migrate through the tightest microcracks,
just a few would create enough caustic reaction product to trip the
detectors and scram the entire PFR (many times). The plugs were fused in
place with explosive charges!....after draining the sodium. **** but it was
hot on there. We were throwing away optical Intrascopes after a few days as
the heat got to them.

I could tell you more about sodium inclusion migration to grain boundaries
under cyclical heat and stress conditions in 18-8 SS.....Hello, Hello? is
anyone still here?

 

Righto, won't do that then!, it's worrying that you'd know it though ;-)

 

They would have to give 50:1 against me to be worthwhile really. They
probably don't take such long term wagers though.

I'm talking about Hypersonic BTW. The Yanks could easily turn out a
Supersonic Concorde replacement if they wanted to. 100 seats minimum and a
decent bar.

 

The tensile tests are interesting.

Toughness was used by me in it's loose sense BTW.

 

I didn't know that they could not be extended into perpituity. Hold on,
didn't the Septics just suggest something like that?

 

It's true in my case. My natural tendency is to go to sleep an hour
later every night until I'm dossing at 4am. It stabilises then.

Work interferes with this natural process, so I try to keep work at bay
for as long as possible.

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FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

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<prod>
move on vagrant

 

Er, yes, something that happens a lot on my own trade.

 

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Wake up; I saw this in Germany recently - he's just getting to the
interesting bit.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Hmm. Me too. If I'm not careful I don't crash until 2AM or so most
nights; later at the weekend. Having the odd 4AM start really gets
challenging.

 

Hmm, it's catching apparently

 

Has anyone yet handed this man an ANORAK# ?

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Platypus

It would have to have epaulettes, gold braid, and little Hakenkreuzen on
the sleeves.

 

How about metallurgical preparation and microscopy in the high gamma non
alpha contaminated environment?
Tensile testing in the high active inert environment
Using CO2 lasers in hot cell environments
Oh I've got a million

but I think my SOBeemer stories are best.

 

Bushie will change that for American patents soon I'm sure

 

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And, er, that's it. Airlines don't pay tax on fuel and don't have to
charge VAT on international tickets. They don't even pay the ticket
tax: the passenger does.

The government's own report (Commission for Integrated Transport)
includes Kenneth Clarke justifying the introduction of Air Passenger
Duty:

For example, Treasury Minister Kenneth Clarke justified the
introduction of the APD as follows in his Budget Statement of 1993:
"First, air travel is under-taxed compared to other sectors of the
economy. It benefits not only from a zero rate of VAT; in addition,
the fuel used in international air travel, and nearly all domestic
flights, is entirely free of tax. A number of countries have already
addressed this anomaly. I propose to levy a small duty on all air
passengers from United Kingdom airports"[39]. In his Budget
Statement of 1996, he made the following remark: "Air travel has
also been undertaxed, because it has proved difficult--still proves
difficult--to get international agreement to tax its fuel. The rates
of air passenger duty are to be increased"[40]. Since the APD in its
elaboration seems more related to ticket price than fuel use, APD
may primarily be considered a compensation for the VAT exemption.

http://www.cfit.gov.uk/research/aec/11.htm

Air passenger duty costs five pounds a head on a budget flight. That
is a total cost of GBP600--700 for a 737 which is about 10% of ticket
sales. And the cost is carried by the passenger, not the airline.

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4736680-108314,00.html