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NASA aims to launch system of 'micro jets' to supplant big jetliners
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^
| December 26 2002
| Ken Kaye
Posted on 12/27/2002 8:26:38 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster
Bump
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:28:07 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
To: gubamyster
Hopefully this will spill out into the general aviation sector, which won't also have the Stalinesque airport security hassles.
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:28:32 AM PST
by
coloradan
To: coloradan
Now, make it robot controlled...
To: gubamyster
This will be as economically feasible as the space shuttle.
To: gubamyster
This would be a welcomed advancement in a world different from what we know now. That's all we need is jet propelled, jihad kamikazis launched from 5,000 low security airfields. Instead of one big airliner, all 19 hijakers could have had their own death missle. NO THANKS! These guys at NASA haven't been observing the planet Earth for a while.
To: gubamyster
To: gubamyster
If NASA has its way, thousands of jet-propelled taxicabs will be used to ease the overburdened airline hub system and take advantage of about 5,000 smaller, slower airports. If this were practical, the government would already be doing it. They can make the planes as cheap as they want, but you still have to pay the pilots.
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:37:04 AM PST
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dirtboy
To: dirtboy
Arrgh! Should read:
If this were practical, the private sector would already be doing it. They can make the planes as cheap as they want, but you still have to pay the pilots.
Not only that, but the government is in the business of creating expensive transportation solutions that require massive subsidies and fail to address the core congestion problems. Light rail is a classic example.
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:38:40 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: Gary Boldwater
Last time I saw something like this is was in Popular Science back in the fifties - everybody was going to have their own aerocar, or aquacar, electocar, or combination of the three.
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:40:54 AM PST
by
norton
To: gubamyster
If I suddenly stumbled into a job requiring a lot of domestic air travel, my next call would probably be to the local flight school.
No way do I want to run the gauntlet of federalized butt-feeling gestapo on a regular basis.
To: dirtboy
Eclipse 500 is already under production and is a winner.
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:42:19 AM PST
by
cynicom
To: DanielLongo
Hmmm - Do you think corporate jets were not avaialable to the hijackers?
What do you think of having these new corporate jets widely available, but with armed pilots?
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:45:26 AM PST
by
Triple
To: cynicom
Eclipse 500 is already under production and is a winner.You still have to pay someone to fly the plane. Spread that cost among four passengers, and you ain't gonna get a competive fare. Look at the cost just to ride in a taxi...
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:46:47 AM PST
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dirtboy
To: dirtboy
"If this were practical, the private sector would already be doing it."
They don't need their study, all they have to do is buy the Eclipse when it's on the market in the near future. It is exactly what NASA proposes only it's being marketed and sold to general avaition.
I'd love to be able to afford one, a real bargain for under $1 million!
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:47:01 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: gubamyster
You know what...I used to like what NASA was doing but the more I read about it the more I don't like it.
There is already a private effort going towards "microjets" or whatever catch phrase you want to call them, and NASA has no business competing against the private sector.
To: gubamyster
NASA is only doing this as a way to avoid meaningful space exploration.
Honey! NASA's on the phone. They say they're from the government and they want to help us (with our air travel needs).
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:48:10 AM PST
by
irv
To: dalereed
I'd love to be able to afford one, a real bargain for under $1 million!Yeah, a $1 million dollar jet, include pilot and ground crew, and amortize that cost for trips carry a whopping four passengers, and it will somehow be equivalent to the price of a coach fare.
Looks like NASA hired the cost estimators for the Canada gun registration database...
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posted on
12/27/2002 8:51:59 AM PST
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dirtboy
To: dirtboy
But letting NASA spend $$ to produce fuel efficient engines should be a good thing.
Besides, anything distracting them from producing laser death ray satellites can only be a good thing.
To: Saturnalia
But letting NASA spend $$ to produce fuel efficient engines should be a good thing."Efficient" and "NASA" are not commonly used in the same sentence...
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12/27/2002 8:56:44 AM PST
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dirtboy
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