This sounds perfect for the 4 passenger several hundred mile battery powered commuter planes that are being developed to make greater use of the hundreds of small underused airfields the US has. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/Features/leaptech.html

(Written on 2015/04/10)(Permalink)

If I were an Airbus stockholder, I would wonder who's paying for the fuel and pilot time!

(Written on 2014/12/26)(Permalink)

So, is this how NASA spends the $18 billion we give them every year? In my opinion these aircraft should be parked somewhere burning no fuel at all. I'd rather see video of something landing on the moon, or the launch of a rocket that can attract commercial customers to help pay for itself. Sorry for the rant.

(Written on 2014/12/12)(Permalink)

Great video, I could almost smell the smog.

(Written on 2014/11/02)(Permalink)

I'm not particularly a "fan" of Airbus, but I like this fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_vOVOTglt4

(Written on 2014/07/26)(Permalink)

At the now defunct Opa Locka Airshow, in South Florida in the 80s, one year an L 1011, and a Boeing 727 made similar gear up passes over the runway at over 500 mph.

(Written on 2014/04/12)(Permalink)

That's OK, I'll just go back to flying Delta

(Written on 2013/11/27)(Permalink)

Was that the Shah coming back?

(Written on 2013/08/30)(Permalink)

I always enjoyed staying at the Tom Penny Inn in Fort Worth back in the early 80s, hoping the B-52s would be taking off the next morning. Tom Penny was just across the interstate from the end of a runway at Carswell AFB, where the older version of B-52 with the eight turbo-jet engines would sometimes leave for training flights at 4:00 AM. I knew what it was, but it would still knock me out of bed!

(Written on 2013/08/25)(Permalink)

Wouldn't a fire suppressor be a network addressable device, and therefore the problem be an incorrect network address which might happen during an engine swap for instance?

(Written on 2013/08/17)(Permalink)