nothing suprises me from corporate America

yeah but woudl they damage a subsonic airliner traveling at 30,000 feet?

I know NASA is working on a design that virutally elminiates it, to the point where it is irrelevant.

The article says its top speed is .98 mach?

yeah but afterburnerse aren't necessary for supercruise, per the F22 which can supercruise without them, assuming you have enough standard thrust to break through

it doesn't say it in this artcile but this thing is supposed to eliminate the sonic boom right?

I'll take 2 please

and those mistakes should be videotaped

video seems borken now.

it has already been brought up that htey have an emergency air bottle on the ejector seat, I'm just saying that we need to have that thing kick in automatically if air quality drops.

Thanks for being a wise ass but to quote someone who is informed on the topic

Ok, this ^

20 minutes of air, enough to cover a lot of ground at full speed and eject if you have to at the end

I still don't get how hard it would be to have an oxygen bottle hooked into the air system with a stand alone guage that flips over to the bottle if it detects an issue with the air coming into the mask. Some kind of backup is in order and then in teh worst case you give the pilots a bugout window in the event of a…

yeah, I thought there was a step in there where Orion would dock with the ISS, i judst didn't realize it was so small a role.

We need an award, or at least some kind of warning rating system for something so painfully conformist to the 'non conformist' hipster trend that it hurts.

I feel kinda weird saying this but... dibbs!

IMO this is something that is up for debate. We weren't on a war footing after the embassy bombings, or the USS cole so terrorist attacks on their own don't constitute an at war state, you could say that we are at war until we withdraw from Afghanistan but we are already drawing down so it is hard to justify the…

I was under the impression that despite its BEO abilities the Orion would also service the ISS.

Ok, I know LEO and BEO, and I get your point about htem being different, but you need to give explenations behind your acronyms lol. I had to do some googling on that one