Mach 1.26

In 1975, on the flight of the Los Angeles to New Orleans leg of the trip to Mobile in which John W. and the Frog took place, the pilot came on the speakers to announce the reason for the departure from the usual flight plan. Normally, the trip included a "tour" of the Grand Canyon, however on this one, we were far out over the Gulf. We had also climbed to 43,000 feet which I thought was out of the flight envelope of a 727 (it was only 1,000 feet too high according to Wikipedia).

It seemed the jet stream had dipped unusually far south and was carrying a speed of something greater than 250 mph. With the engines cranked up, the height which placed us in the middle of the jet stream, and the ferocious tail wind, we were traveling at a ground speed of 820 mph!

This is from Altitude variation and implications for atmospheric acoustics :

290 meters per second @ 43,000 feet = 649 mph

340 meters per second @ sea level = 761 mph

820/761 = mach 1.08 @ sea level

820/649 = mach 1.26 @ 43,000 feet

820 - 250 = 570 mph actual air speed

570/761 = mach 0.75

570/649 = mach 0.88 maximum aircraft speed

...so under no case did the aircraft break the sound barrier. Neat, huh?! BTW, we made New Orleans 45 minutes ahead of schedule.

 

More Gummit Stupidity

Do you remember how awesomely poorly Microsoft's ME, the Millennium Edition performed? Kinda makes ya think of the human "ME" (very much ME, mememe). It sure goes a long way to explaining the very sorry state we are letting the entire world fall.

The single example of Sweden, one of the ancestral homes of the Vikings, having become so complacent as to allow the massive influx of African and mid-east muslims to raise their rape rate 1,472 percent. ...to think of the Vikings, arguably the finest warriors and explorers of the past, allowing their wives and children to become sex toys for some the most primitive "people" on the earth...

Alas, Babylon

Did you read where California, a "sanctuary state", is granting drivers licenses to 605,000 illegals? That ought to work out just peachy.

Since everything south from Santa Rosa on is plurality Mexican, it should be granted full independence and Aztlán recognized. It will never be American or have American values or society again and soon, all the southwest will be going the same way. New Mexico has been Mexican for decades and 90% hispanic Albuquerque (when I lived there 30 years ago) has had Mexican "values and society" for god-knows how long. I found out the hard way. Since I was nearly beaten to death (and burgled, and vandalized, and had my vehicle stolen) by some utterly unknown, utterly worthless wetback bastards while I was employed by Sandia National Labs, my experiences and opinion of Mexican "culture" is rather low. After I awoke six months after my stroke, my doc said that due to the nature of the brain aneurysm that caused the stroke and with no family history of strokes or aneurysms, the most likely cause was the vicious wetback attack.



I can't help but love our brown brothers and their wonderful society. This is all going to work out just right. I'll be gone and the creeping misery, well, not creeping with that thing as our el presidente, the next generations of folk will get to "enjoy" the wonders of the 3rd world right from where they live...



Note: from Wikipedia:


"A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a safe haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a safe place for humans, such as a political sanctuary; and non-human sanctuary, such as an animal or plant sanctuary."



Does that mean Mexico is a violent, godless, un-livable shithole full of disease, criminal leaders, and murderous brigands that prey on the weak?