It's also been debunked recently by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and Virgin Space Flight fame.
An engineer can easily see the flawed logic...^)
His slide show that was given last month at the Oshkosh Air Show is well worth a read. It's well presented and goes directly to the facts, or rather the lack of facts.
http://www.slideshare.net/QuestSystems/agw-analysisrutanv5-read-only
Be sure to read the notes that go with each slide.
So Burt Rutan is on the side of the angels on this? He’s such a serious cutting edge designer...hope the word gets out before the government destroys more of our REAL environment: Freedom.
You talk as if you were there. I was, and looking at his designs of thirty years ago, that were there, and the White Knight of today I marvel at what goes on in his brain. I also marvel that somehow I missed what you saw. Dang! Of course it is impossible to see and do everything I would like to do in the three and one half days we were there. Oh well thanks to you there is a link.