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Post by mick on Feb 11, 2023 9:23:23 GMT
I find this report very strange. Why wasn't this object plunging to earth?
Mick
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Feb 11, 2023 9:35:24 GMT
A normal glider has reached 76,000 feet in altitude, so I imagine a solar powered motor glider could certainly reach 40,000 feet, consuming very little power.
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Post by kate on Feb 11, 2023 9:43:26 GMT
I find this report very strange. Why wasn't this object plunging to earth?
Mick
It does seem strange. 20 - 40mph speed? One would have expected it to have at least been losing altitude.
I wonder what it is? Drone?
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Post by kate on Feb 11, 2023 9:44:49 GMT
A normal glider has reached 76,000 feet in altitude, so I imagine a solar powered motor glider could certainly reach 40,000 feet, consuming very little power. That was one heck of a thermal for the glider!! |
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Post by mick on Feb 11, 2023 9:49:38 GMT
A normal glider has reached 76,000 feet in altitude, so I imagine a solar powered motor glider could certainly reach 40,000 feet, consuming very little power. The report suggests that the object "had no propulsion" and that it was "cylindrical and silverish grey". Didn't seem to fit the description of a glider with solar power.
Mick
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Post by dreampolice on Feb 11, 2023 10:10:14 GMT
And so it starts. The yanks have now started a war with Aliens.
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Post by spinno on Feb 11, 2023 10:10:26 GMT
Grand Fenwickian ballistic weather balloon?
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Post by daves on Feb 11, 2023 13:10:00 GMT
The conspiracy theories will have already started.
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Post by kate on Feb 11, 2023 13:32:04 GMT
And so it starts. The yanks have now started a war with Aliens. Yep. We've just killed off half their population. (Or was it God looking for a safe place to land?) |
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Post by dreampolice on Feb 11, 2023 13:41:57 GMT
(Or was it God looking for a safe place to land?) If that was the case, surely it/she/he would have been over its/his/hers own county of Yorkshire. |
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Post by zou on Feb 11, 2023 14:15:54 GMT
If that was the case, surely it/she/he would have been over its/his/hers own county of Yorkshire. As if. |
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Post by MJB on Feb 11, 2023 17:48:09 GMT
I heard it was the ball from Harry Kane's
Penalty kick in the world cup.
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Post by willien on Feb 11, 2023 17:49:54 GMT
Nah. That went too high to be in orbit.
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Post by JohnY on Feb 11, 2023 22:40:44 GMT
A normal glider has reached 76,000 feet in altitude, so I imagine a solar powered motor glider could certainly reach 40,000 feet, consuming very little power. That was one heck of a thermal for the glider!! If it was a thermal then it would be. It was mountain wave lift. The glider was unpowered but not really standard. See Perlan 2. |
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Post by JohnY on Feb 11, 2023 22:49:17 GMT
A normal glider has reached 76,000 feet in altitude, so I imagine a solar powered motor glider could certainly reach 40,000 feet, consuming very little power. Maybe, but by 76000 feet a normal propeller would be suffering from cavitation and the tip speed would be supersonic. |
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