Nah! Me too :-) Lets see Continental got.. was it 20 million?... for the

diesel

no where in sight. Williams got 100 million for the cheap turbo fan no where
in sight. Will the excesses of NASA never stop? :-)

Well as long as they issue parachutes to all 500 passengers I see no
problem with a blended wing design. I wonder what it would do if it
ran into a cell like Marcia just experienced on her way from Texas
to Florida in a 737.

Paul Lamar

Continental is flying one of their diesels and has a lot of test stand time.
The third generation running jet engine prototype was a OSH last yr.
These efforts might fail on their own, but they do seem to be producing
real hardware.  No need to exaggerate.

Bill
Long EZ builder & pilot
mechanical engineer

 
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