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

[LearLove]

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.

 

[scoreboardII]

look at this, already SWA colors:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...incr_n_667009.html#s116884&title=Luxury_Blimp

and , it already flies the SWA pattern speed.

 

[say again]

One big miserable failure this is turning out to be!!

 

[ackattacker]

I've been seeing those designs on the covers of Popular Mechanics for the last 35 years. Hardly anything new.

It's not easy to beat the overall efficiency of a modern jetliner design, especially when one considers all aspects of safety and comfort beyond just strict aerodynamic efficiency.

 

[Jetjockey]

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.

So true, so true. American business leadership sucks with a few minor exceptions, Southwest being one of them. Very few CEOs put employees ahead of shareholders.

 

[BrickTop]

Ive said it for years. CHEAP PLASTIC JUNK.

 

[DieselDragRacer]

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.

That's OK because 10 years from now all those currently green Indian and Chinese pilots will have enough experience to fly Airbuses for the majors and they'll do it for $20,000/yr plus a path to US citizenship.

 

[b707guy]

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/8817/slide_8817_116898_large.jpg?1295451693865

I guess the good news for Omni folk is that you'll be around for quite some time to come - the photo proves it! The design itself is nothing new, though - there's a box or two full of them in the bathroom cabinet...

 

[LJ45]

right... i get my news from the huff post. not

 

[timmay]

That's OK because 10 years from now all those currently green Indian and Chinese pilots will have enough experience to fly Airbuses for the majors and they'll do it for $20,000/yr plus a path to US citizenship.

If things keep going the way they are here in 10 years US pilots will be trying to fly Chinese and Indian airplanes for 20,000 yr and citizenship over there.