Excuse Me Folks, Just Passing Though…

Favourite switch on my new aircraft. Oh the choices….!

Great photo. Poor birds though. A quiet morning suddenly full of explosive fury.

It seems like a interesting design interesting but I’m not sure if it’ll ever take off. I’m far from being an expert but the tri-engine design INCLUDING a liquid-fueled rocket engine sounds like a nightmare to maintain, especially since rockets engines aren’t usually considered to be safe enough for commercial transport.

Since turbojets are meant to be extendable (yeah, I’ve looked at the article), I’d like to remind anyone that complexity is usually prone to failures. Same goes for the rear fins (also change position in-fight). In my amateur opinion using turboramjets or internal turbojets would make more sense. Aaand... it wouldn’t probably look as depicted on the second picture.

And that is not including costs. No manned air-breathing airplane has ever reached speeds faster than mach 3.5, and the one that came close (Blackbird) was specially designed to handle these speeds. We have no experience at building near-hypersonic manned aircraft, especially meant for commercial human transport. Then, after each light rocket engines would have to be test-fired (just for safety) and probably replaced with a new one after every... lets be optimistic and say 30 flights.

Okay enough rambling... for now

Patent Details for a Supersonic Airplane That Could Potentially Travel From New York to London in One Hour

Dude. Guys.

We wear ribbons in place of medals for a reason.

So we don’t look like we bedazzled ourselves.

Got a cool pic of Ed Force One on the ramp this morning!

S4E24, Equestria Games - Deleted Scene

Written in part by /u/cyberscythe and /u/mad87645!

Check the mirrors for a prettier version! Well… uh, a prettier title card, at least. (Imgur, Gfycat)

AS-202 S-IB/S-IVB Stage Separation.

The video is slowed down, in reality the time from the separation to the J-2 firing was under 4 seconds.

The S-IVB is the stage that put Apollo capsules on the lunar transfer orbit. Note that this is a Saturn IB upper stage, meaning this one never actually went to the moon, and only put the yet unmanned spacecraft on an suborbital trajectory.

The three small rockets are the ullage motors, small solid rockets used to create small acceleration, so the fuel settles own in the bottom of the tank and starts being fed into fuel pumps

F-35

No matter the year or time, guys will be guys.