What a disappointment! I was hoping for Warp 12, at least.
Posted on 04/08/2021 6:40:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
President Joe Biden has caused confusion after predicting some commercial airplanes could fly at speeds of up to 21,000 miles per hour in the next 10 years, faster than the hypersonic weapons under development by the military.
“We’re going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at subsonic speeds, supersonic speeds, be able to figuratively, if you may, if we decide to do it, be able to traverse the world in an hour, travel at 21,000 miles an hour," Biden said.
The White House has yet to clarify Biden's comments, made during a Wednesday address aimed at promoting his $2.25 trillion infrastructure and jobs spending package.
The speed of 21,000 miles an hour roughly equates to Mach 28, or 28 times the speed of sound.
In comparison, the new AGM-183 Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, which failed to detach from a B-52H Stratofortress bomber during a U.S. Air Force test launch this week in California, is designed to reach up to Mach 5. The Army and Navy are developing similar ground- and sea-launched hypersonic weapons.
The fastest commercial airplane flies at less than Mach 1.
Some companies, such as Boeing, have been working since 2018 on aircraft that could travel up to Mach 5. Those airliners may not be realized until “before the end of the decade," at least according to rival Aerion, which is exploring its own options.
During his speech Wednesday, Biden pitched his "American Jobs Plan" as a proposal that could help the nation "build for tomorrow."
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Has Warp drive been invented? What planet is Joe on, or rather what is he watching on TV?
So if Biden is on the plane with several young women he will have to sniff their hair and caress their arms really efficiently.
Woman to Biden who has his hand on her leg, trying to kiss her, on the final leg of his journey: "Any higher Mister Biden and my ears will pop."
Nod to Moonraker (1979) said by Leila Shenna to Roger Moore.
I doubt anyone would find much of anything large enough to pick up with a tweezers.
Maybe they are based on the UFOs everyone is seeing?
Gonna *really* overshoot every destination you could possibly imagine.
What a disappointment! I was hoping for Warp 12, at least.
This’ll sure cut down AOCs time on a train for her non stop trips from DC to Honolulu
The same power as AOC's "trains going across the Pacific Ocean." A force field ahead which compresses time and space and a matching one behind that expands time and space. One theory of how the space aliens' ships stop in midair, then zig zag to tease pilots, then zoom off into the distance in 1.1 seconds.
80 million votes my eye.
Scotty photo.....
About a half hour ago I finished watching National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 in which James Doohan repeated the great lines.
That’s a coincidence.
Think of the possibilities! “We” will be able to distribute Illegals nation wide in just minutes!
Probably going to overshoot the destination like that.
They will go to orbit o tear the wings off trying to stay in the atmosphere.
He didn’t even check out his EO he is signing.
I can just imagine the staff behind him screaming (in their heads) “Just read the words Joe!!!”
A bird strike at 21,000 miles per hour will simply disintegrate the aircraft.
It’s not the speed of the plane that bothers me...it’s trying to stop it before you overshoot Europe entirely and half the Pacific ocean.
“He’s not adept at extemporaneous speaking.”
That’s putting it in kindest possible way.
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