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Old 07-13-2016, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnM View Post
Now that would have been a more exciting Atlantic crossing than in Concorde, methinks, but if the A9 contained the explosive payload, I wonder if it had an ejection seat? Did they have them back then, or was it envisaged as a fanatical suicide mission?
I think it will be very difficult to leave a rocket diving at four times the speed of the sound even with an ejection seat.
Probably a suicide mission.
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