[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[coloradan]

Hopefully this will spill out into the general aviation sector, which won't also have the Stalinesque airport security hassles.

[Gary Boldwater]

This will be as economically feasible as the space shuttle.

[DanielLongo]

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.

[Incorrigible]

Citizen Plane

[dirtboy]

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.

[hopespringseternal]

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.

[anobjectivist]

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.

[irv]

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).

[N. Theknow]

How is Aerobus doing with their bigass 3XX that is supposed to carry 600+?

Anybody know?