Monthly Archives: September 2014

Beethoven’s Ninth

Posted on September 3, 2014 by James| Comments Off on Beethoven’s Ninth

Beethoven's Ninth

Posted in Humor, Music

RIP J. R. R. Tolkien

Posted on September 2, 2014 by James| Comments Off on RIP J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and of English language and literature, also at Oxford, from 1945 to 1959.

J.R.R. TolkienWikipedia Link

Posted in Because I Can, Literary, On This Day

SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ Sets ‘Speed Over a Recognized Course’ record

Posted on September 1, 2014 by James| Comments Off on SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ Sets ‘Speed Over a Recognized Course’ record

SR-71

The SR-71 holds the “Speed Over a Recognized Course” record for flying from New York to London distance 3,508 miles (5,646 km), 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h), and an elapsed time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds, set on September 1, 1974 while flown by U.S. Air Force Pilot Maj. James V. Sullivan and Maj. Noel F. Widdifield, reconnaissance systems officer (RSO). This equates to an average velocity of about Mach 2.68, including deceleration for in-flight refueling. Peak speeds during this flight were probably closer to the declassified top speed of Mach 3.2+. For comparison, the best commercial Concorde flight time was 2 hours 52 minutes, and the Boeing 747 averages 6 hours 15 minutes.

Wikipedia Link

Posted in Because I Can, Planes Trains and Automobiles