Comments on: First Blog To Have Its Own Air Force? http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1649.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jonathan http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1649.html/comment-page-1#comment-1797 Jonathan Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:46:18 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001649.php#comment-1797 ANSWERS Cessna Top speed: ~Mach 0.18 Rate of climb: ~800 ft/min MiG-21 Top speed: ~Mach 2 Rate of climb: ~30,000 ft/min Insurance: Who cares? ANSWERS

Cessna
Top speed: ~Mach 0.18
Rate of climb: ~800 ft/min

MiG-21
Top speed: ~Mach 2
Rate of climb: ~30,000 ft/min

Insurance: Who cares?

]]> By: Jay Manifold http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1649.html/comment-page-1#comment-1796 Jay Manifold Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:33:50 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001649.php#comment-1796 We should be able to wreak considerable havoc with an "air force" of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3145577.stm" rel="nofollow">these</a>, at no risk to ourselves (unfortunately, so could anybody else). Eventually, of course, I'll have asteroids poised to be nudged into Earth-intersecting orbits if the terrestrials get uppity ... We should be able to wreak considerable havoc with an “air force” of these, at no risk to ourselves (unfortunately, so could anybody else). Eventually, of course, I’ll have asteroids poised to be nudged into Earth-intersecting orbits if the terrestrials get uppity …

]]> By: Fred http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1649.html/comment-page-1#comment-1795 Fred Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:11:12 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001649.php#comment-1795 Heh. My respect for you plummets. It IS a fine representative of the most shot down fighter plane series of the post WWII era. I suggest getting one of them Stealth Cessna's the german guy flew onto Red Square, just pre-post Soviet Dis-Union. More useful. Cheaper. Less dangerous to yourself. Heh. My respect for you plummets.

It IS a fine representative of the most shot down fighter plane series of the post WWII era.

I suggest getting one of them Stealth Cessna’s the german guy flew onto Red Square, just pre-post Soviet Dis-Union.

More useful. Cheaper. Less dangerous to yourself.

]]> By: Lex http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/1649.html/comment-page-1#comment-1794 Lex Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:49:12 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/001649.php#comment-1794 Lessons, then life insurance. If we're going to have our own airforce, I say go with exclusively unmanned vehicles. (If we are going to conquer the solar system, we'll need trans-atmospheric weapon platforms. I suggest the inertia-less space dreadnoughts employed by the the heros of Doc Smith's Lensman series. Of course, once we start operating them, we will come to the attention of Gharlane of Eddore, who is charged with stamping out all that is good in this space-time continuum. But Jay and I will come up with something.) Lessons, then life insurance.

If we’re going to have our own airforce, I say go with exclusively unmanned vehicles.

(If we are going to conquer the solar system, we’ll need trans-atmospheric weapon platforms. I suggest the inertia-less space dreadnoughts employed by the the heros of Doc Smith’s Lensman series. Of course, once we start operating them, we will come to the attention of Gharlane of Eddore, who is charged with stamping out all that is good in this space-time continuum. But Jay and I will come up with something.)

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