Groundbreaking indeed. Good job editor.
1 posted on
05/10/2024 4:53:08 AM PDT by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
Maybe Editor should have said “Earth-shattering?”
2 posted on
05/10/2024 4:58:48 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
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To: Jonty30
Photo looks like some Nazi scientist design was bushed off and used.
Straight out of Captain America cartoon
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3 posted on
05/10/2024 5:04:58 AM PDT by
MeanWestTexan
(Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
To: Jonty30
Fiberglass airframe? I’m no aviation expert, but it sounds like it was too light…
4 posted on
05/10/2024 5:05:38 AM PDT by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Jonty30
Looks very 1950’s. Hopefully they gathered enough data to go back to the drawing board.
To: Jonty30
What part of the ground was broken?
7 posted on
05/10/2024 5:18:12 AM PDT by
ComputerGuy
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To: Jonty30; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...
Aviation Ping!.....................
8 posted on
05/10/2024 5:20:19 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Jonty30
The usual load of goofy comments! It is a very promising concept - a more efficient, and potentially more valuable spacecraft than the Shuttle.
It was a test model; they break. Sometimes those "failures" make the next version even better because you learn from those events.
The design is an efficient-looking lifting body and what all of you miss, this is a small firm that is making progress in a new and exciting direction. A future spacecraft that takes off from the ground and can fly directly into orbit without boosters, separate stages, and more heavy and expensive parts.
And for the goof that said "it looks too light" - yes, you don't know anything at all about aircraft design.
12 posted on
05/10/2024 5:27:14 AM PDT by
Chainmail
(You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
To: Jonty30
26 posted on
05/10/2024 5:54:34 AM PDT by
MayflowerMadam
(Navarro didn't kill himself.)
To: Jonty30
Article reads like a high schooler wrote it on the bus to school the morning it was due, hoping that’s some sort of automated translation thing and not a reflection the original author just being a high schooler, quality coverage of technology news is sorely needed.
27 posted on
05/10/2024 5:55:39 AM PDT by
jz638
To: Jonty30
[...] rendering the space plane inoperable and it's its fiberglass airframe damaged beyond repair [...]"Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology..."
Regards,
29 posted on
05/10/2024 5:56:43 AM PDT by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Jonty30
The ‘spike’ engine sounds interesting.
31 posted on
05/10/2024 6:09:43 AM PDT by
dljordan
(What do you think?)
To: Jonty30
Raumflugzeuge If they would shorten the name, it might have been a Wright-brothers-type event...
41 posted on
05/10/2024 7:39:37 AM PDT by
SuperLuminal
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