Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "State of the Art"
From: "Tom Wyse & Jo Hughes" <joandtom@mtnhome.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 13:51:46 -0500

>There is no such airplane that I've heard of. Nothing certainly from the
>Skunk works that would be tactical in nature. The hypersonic transport is
>still a dream last I heard. The stealth bomber and fighter are both
>sub-sonic. The F22 isn't even close to being as fast and won't be deployed
>for at least four more years. Which airplanes are you talking about?
>

There have been a number of reports of flights of some aircraft, usually
just off the Calf. coast, that
travels in excess of 5k and from contrails would appear to be using some
sort of ion pulse engine.
I'm sure the pilot has a Leica in his pocket (on topic)