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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    The plane has the scoots.
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    Image of DWD DWD
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    Not this again. An inflatable jumbo jet is NOT art. Nor is a waterfall under a bridge, banners draped in a park, slopping gaudy paint on a cruise ship or giant umbrellas on a hillside (which killed someone). Doing something and proclaiming it art...does not make it art.
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    Image of John Mahoney John Mahoney
    01/14/09

    @DWD: You're an idiot. This giant inflatable airplane is fun to look at. Someone made it. It's art.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/14/09

    @DWD: What if I took what you said, made it all sorts of crazy colors and rearranged a few words and had them all coming out of a speech balloon to make it look like a talking marmoset smoking a cigarette while using a toilet made out of bamboo inside of an icy volcano was saying it?
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    01/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I'd pay you a dollar.
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    Image of DWD DWD
    01/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead:
    Then you'd have my comments in "all sorts of crazy colors and rearranged...all coming out of a speech balloon...like a talking marmoset smoking a cigarette while using a toilet made out of bamboo inside of an icy volcano was saying it."


    But, you wouldn't have art.

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    01/14/09

    @DWD: Awwww why not? Wait, don't tell me, it'd be wrong anyway.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    Aww. The plane is sad.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    flaccid air-a subsidiary of American Airlines
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    That's what happens when you give your planes treats between meals. They start to beg like that. Pathetic, really.
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    01/19/09

    @frigg: Swwwwwwwwwwwwing and a miss.
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    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    It just need a little more petting
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    In reply to Life-Size Inflatable Jumbo Jet Art Installation Just Wants To Be a Real Jet
    I can imagine the practical jokes that could be played on travelers with one of these sitting around at every airport.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/11/08

    In reply to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
    It's the Duke Nukem of the aerospace industry.
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    Image of CaliBoom CaliBoom
    12/11/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: not yet - it hasn't even gotten to the A380's amount of delay . . .
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    12/11/08

    @CaliBoom: Fine. It's the PlayStation Home of the aerospace industry.
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    Image of eddiecoaster eddiecoaster
    12/11/08

    In reply to Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again
    I wish that time/money was spent on a supersonic aircraft. I'm tired of it taking 9 hours to go from Chicago to Hawai'i. A real "dreamliner" would be much faster.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/11/08

    @eddiecoaster: They tried it. It was called the Concorde and was used for transatlantic flights.


    The problem with supersonic flight is that it's noisy. Sonic booms are capable of reaching the ground from high altitudes.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    12/11/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: It's also not fuel efficient, since the drag coefficient is squared with respect to air speed. You'd have to pay a lot more for plane tickets if airliners were supersonic.
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    Image of drbuzz0 drbuzz0
    12/11/08

    @eddiecoaster:


    Yeah, the sad thing is that supersonic flight is basically dead in the water to begin with because it's only permitted over extended areas of ocean. That limiters the versatility of any supersonic passenger aircraft.


    In the US supersonic flight is only permitted in a few isolated military training areas.


    The concern, of course, is the sonic boom, but the way the law is written ALL supersonic flight is off limits, even if the aircraft can be designed to make the boom extremely soft or almost inaudible. NASA, Lockheed and Gulfstream and others have produced prototype aircraft designs with dramatically reduced sonic booms due to wave shaping or other factors. It does not matter though, it's still not permitted without a change in regulations.

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    12/11/08

    @eddiecoaster: Actually Boeing was working on a near-sonic plane up until Sept 11th hit and fuel prices started to skyrocket. Basically it would have shaved an hour or two off of your flight. But, airlines were far more interested in cost savings, thus the Dreamliner was created.
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    Image of nuclearlove nuclearlove
    12/11/08

    @drbuzz0: You make it sound like we're closer to inventing teleportation than supersonic flight. This makes me depressed, Doctor.
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    12/11/08

    @nuclearlove: We've invented hardware that is capable of supersonic flight. We haven't invented hardware that is ecologically responsible, fuel efficient, and supersonic for civilian transport craft.
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