[SunkenCiv]

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Form will definitely follow function with the QSST, creating a striking shape for the ultra-fast cruiser. -- Courtesy SAI

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[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[FairOpinion]

Now that's my kind of plane! :)

[RedCell]

Maybe Nancy will want one of these.

[Cicero]

Beautiful looking plane. Wouldn't it be nice to be rich and fly something like that?

Just don't let Nancy Pelosi get her hands on one.

[Boiler Plate]

WOW

[A. Pole]

Looks like Concord

[NormsRevenge]

Fly WHUUUUSSSHHH Airlines!
Nice looking plane.

[Fred Hayek]

I think the Sukhoi Design Bureau had a similar idea about 9 years ago. Was looking for American investors. Will do a search.

[Lokibob]

OK, gonna be on the market by 2014. There is no use in hoping for that, cause by then we will all be dead via global warming. Oh the inhumanity of it all. /sarcoff

[RunningWolf]

Whoa!

Put the new version of the J-58 on it

[68skylark]

These are the only guys who could design and fly such a plane.

[Right Wing Assault]

Air Force, what do you think? Maybe a smaller version?

[BlueOneGolf]

Watch the "Flight Simulation 4:00 Video" at the QSST Website. It's a pretty cool CGI of one of these in flight. Nice advertising. Any idea what the music is from?

[null and void]

Wanna go halvcies on one?

[hamboy]

[RayChuang88]

I think companies like NetJets and FlexJet will buy them on a very large scale once the plane enters production. The reason is simple: unlike the Concorde, the QSST will meet even the stringent ICAO rules on noise and exhaust emissions, thanks to technologies vastly more modern than the technology used on the Concorde (which is essentially late 1950's knowledge of aerodynamics).

By the way, by limiting the top speed to around Mach 1.6, it drastically lessens the need for expensive heat-resistant structural materials, since the structural heating of plane flying at Mach 1.6 is much lower than the Concorde's Mach 2.1 cruising speed.

[SunkenCiv]

"Concord Man" is just a nickname I guess, like the earlier characters, "Titanic Man" and "Hindenberg Man".

Concord Man Recalls Luxury Airplane Flights Of Long Ago
County Press | By Eileen Shomo and Sue Fritz
Posted on 02/17/2007 10:08:56 AM EST by Tribune7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1786511/posts

[Dallas59]

CAPITALIST PIGS!!!

I want one....

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Zuriel]

It's shape reminds me somewhat of the B-?? Valkyrie.

It also reminds me somewhat of the paper planes that I (and others) sent zipping across the elementary classrooms. There was sometimes a 'sonic boom' (GO!! To the Principal's office!!!)