This is why the 787 is a POS and why the US is falling behind...

[BornAgainPagan]

Vision and fortitude not bottom line and $$ signs.

Agreed.

Pure capitalism is just as bad as communism.

 

[BornAgainPagan]

It would be great to see Lockheed Martin making airliners again!

 

[HA25]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20110118/cm_huffpost/810579


These are what the 787 should be today, not 25 years from now. This is what happens when we let the Harvard MBA 'Billionaire Boys Club" CEO's and Wall Street run companies instead of great visionaries like Jack Northrop, Bill Boeing and Eddie Allen.

Same can be said of the airines.... Juan Trippe, Bob Six, and even Howerd Hughes were a order of magnitude better CEO's than the current group of flunklies... God help us.

 

[HA25]

Agreed.

Pure capitalism is just as bad as communism.

Even Adam Smith warned of the evils of this... Monopoly, etc.. Regulated ecomomies are a necessary part of mondern western civilization.

 

[Draginass]

And don't forget the politically-correct world-view option of outsourcing a lot of the build to EVERYWHERE. Now nothing fits or is on time. It appears that American business leaders are as stupid as their politicians.

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20110118/cm_huffpost/810579


These are what the 787 should be today, not 25 years from now. This is what happens when we let the Harvard MBA 'Billionaire Boys Club" CEO's and Wall Street run companies instead of great visionaries like Jack Northrop, Bill Boeing and Eddie Allen.

Boeing should have made the leap (like the "leaps" they made WRT the 707 and 747) to blended wing body aircraft 20 years ago. But instead some money man CFO offered a warmed over 757 or re-engined 737 because that would make their margins look better and pockets fuller faster.

This not only goes for the aerospace industry in the US but just about every other tech industry where the US is/was ahead of the world.

Vision and fortitude not bottom line and $$ signs.

Future Plane


Get ready for the next generation of [COLOR=#366388! important][COLOR=#366388! important]passenger [COLOR=#366388! important]airplanes[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR].
NASA has taken the wraps off three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft that could potentially be ready to fly as soon as 2025, joining these planes of the future (and these). The designs come from Lockheed Martin, [COLOR=#366388! important][COLOR=#366388! important]Northrop [COLOR=#366388! important]Grumman[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] and The Boeing Company. In the final months of 2010, each of these companies won a contract from NASA to research and test their concepts during 2011.
According to NASA: "[E]ach design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range of approximately 7,000 miles; and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of payload, either passengers or cargo. For the rest of this year, each team will be exploring, testing, simulating, keeping and discarding innovations and technologies to make their design a winner."
Apparently, NASA is aiming to develop a line of super-planes that larger, faster, quieter, and that burn fuel slower and cleaner than their present counterparts.
Check out the three concept planes (below), then have a look at our slideshow of more incredible planes from the future.

You actually cite the Huffington Post, a first rate second rate leftist rag?

 

[HA25]

You actually cite the Huffington Post, a first rate second rate leftist rag?

I take it maybe you prefer Fox News, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh for "news"?

 

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I take it maybe you prefer Fox News, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh for "news"?

Ohhh Boy...here we go AGAIN!!! LOL. Hope you enjoy the Whale!!!

 

[HA25]

K, you know I quit being a moderator here because I couldn't jump into the fray, right?

FI.com is like the proverbial crewroom... filled with pilots who think their Republicans but want to talk about how the "Company is screwing us over" all the time... /sigh

 

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FI.com is like the proverbial crewroom... filled with pilots who think their Republicans but want to talk about how the "Company is screwing us over" all the time... /sigh

What the heck are you talking about S? I'm a registered Republican and I love my guns, I love my right to practice MY religion, and I love big buisiness. I support Top management and their quest to avoid paying more taxes and in turn outsourcing American jobs. I agree, labor must be contained and management should be given bonuses for doing so...heck, its Free Society at work!!

In addition, as ain airline pilot and a Arizonian, I willingly pay thousands to a union (if you can call USAPA a union?) I know management is out to screw me and I worry that my job will be spun off to some sort of foriegn "ab initio" program. I think its wrong that mentally ill people can legally purchace guns and I think Muslims are not to be trusted!!

Oh man...you might be on to something here!!

To all, Sorry for the thread hijack!! FMS and I have history.