[C19fan]

That is weird. This is obscure but I like steam punk anime. There was this one anime series, Last Exile, and the bad guys flew aircraft just like that.

[skinkinthegrass]

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[Joe Brower]

Yeah, cool thing about anime -- you can totally ignore the laws of physics and it still looks feasible. Those craft could also transform and ambulate on the ground as well. Neat trick.

All you need is a little Claudia fluid. $;-)

[DManA]

Boeing invests a lot of capital in a staff of highly trained engineers to design planes that people want to buy.

We don’t need bureaucrats doling out our tax dollars to crackpots in parallel.

If customers demand a hypersonic transport private business will provide it to them.

[Wings-n-Wind]

This ninja-star airliner....

Inherently unstable at any speed....

All the flight control software in creation cannot prevent a certain spin and likely tumbling should one of those two engines hiccup or fail at a critical moment...

There are design engineers who enjoy their artists' sketches and pipe dreams...

--AND--
There are pilots who live with the daily line-flying realities and variables of transport aviation...

Including staying safe in the context of all the reasonable "what-if's"...
--"what's the next unexpected thing"...
and the "one-more-thing" to deal with...
(usually external factors--weather... traffic conflict/delays... etc.)

When engineers and pilots work together...
...the new generation aircraft are that much more safe, fuel-efficient, and cost-effective...

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LOCKHEED was the BEST!...

BOEING is VERY GOOD at this...

McDONNELL-DOUGLAS [RIP]... fair to midline....

--AND--
SCAREBUS.... not so much at all...

JMHO

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Have a nice flight...

[RainMan]

"The U.S. has already begun carrying out tests of unmanned hypersonic aircraft, but with mixed results. A U.S. Air Force test of the unmanned X-51A WaveRider ended prematurely when the aircraft plunged into the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 14."

yeah, that would ruin your day.

[Focault's Pendulum]