Welcome to the TPS Class 06B High Desert Outlaws website. Browse the links to see what's going on. Check back often as this is a work in progress.

What's New (May)!

We've added a new aircraft to the list of aircraft flown at TPS. The AN-2 Colt; the world's largest single engine bi-plane. It first went into production in 1949. More than 20,000 AN-2's were built. Check it out on the aircraft page and learn more about it at this link.

XF-108 Rapier

The XF-108 Rapier was an experimental aircraft design by North American Aviation. It was intended to be a Mach 3 Interceptor. The program was cancelled in 1959 with only one non-flight worthy mockup produced.

General characteristics

Crew: 2
Length: 89 ft 2 in (27.2 m)
Wingspan: 57 ft 5 in (17.5 m)
Height: 22 ft 1 in (6.7 m)
Wing area: 1865 ft² (173.4 m²)
Empty weight: 50,907 lb
Max takeoff weight: 102,533 lb
Powerplant: 2× General Electric J93-GE-AR3 afterburning turbojet, 29,300 lbf (w/AB) 20,900 lbf (dry) (130.3 kN (w/AB), 93 kN dry)

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-108_Rapier

Today (2/28/07) Class 06B reached a milestone in a nerdy engineer sense. As we study avionics systems and learn all about binary and hexidecimal information being passed along data buses a few of us hard-working engineers could not pass on the opportunity to photograph this binary milestone. These numbers mean something in binary with regard to the graduation countdown, but when converted to a decimal number, 682, it means absolutely nothing to us!