I would agree. The Blues are amazing, but I was blown away with the Arrows when I saw them at Goodwood.

Pretty cool. The notion of high speed taxi demos is interesting. Its cool to see and hear the aircraft, but you are incurring probably 60%-70% of the risk involved in just letting it fly demos.

Hmmm, flaps were down. Seems unneccisary for a high speed taxi.

Mostly because they work for huge multinational companies, make tens of millions of dollars and they want to continue to make tens of millions of dollars. That adds to the pressure. Lack of results can lead to lack of millions.

After checking the pic and seeing a plume from the main engines I read the caption from the original picture. It is for “a” SSME engine that did not light and not “the” SSMEs not lighting. A small, but important difference since it means you still have two mains and the SRBs going.

Untitled is a good podcast. Some of the early ones where they focus on his techniques for fabricating things are really interesting.

GSA Auctions had three for sale a month ago. $500K starting bid. Looked to be in good shape.

A couple of them did and a couple didn't. They were instantly the pinical of cool though.

Murcury astronaut. Elegant and purposeful. Also shiny!

You have to take it out over the ocean or get permission to operate in a military restricted airspace to go supersonic. You would be certified as experimental and that limits what you can do with it. On a good day it carries about 45 minutes of fuel and the handling gets harry after about 30 minutes. Its an…

We did Buxton’s Bigtime Bash the first year. It was huge fun. I would recommend it and it sounds like he has some cool folks showing up.

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So basically the Walking Dead?

The Pef needs some alone time with Riciardo this weekend?

Bernie has a number of easily predictable and known behaviors:

I have a bunch, but for now I will say Kelly Johnson. He was an engineer and program manager for some the greatest aircraft of the 20th century. The Blackbird, U-2, Constellation, F-104 Starfighter, P-38 and C-130 were all aircraft that he had a direct, and often times controlling, hand in.

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From everything I’ve seen its the Bumble Bee. Currently at the Pima Air Museum.

Pacific Blue, because I like blue and it looked better to me than the rest of the colors offered that year. I've also owned two red vehicles and a dark metallic green one. I also like green. So basically, I pick colors that I like.

FLEXiBL - the i will make it cool like iPhone. Trust me.