Air Force One Replacement

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/16/2019 at 14:58 • Filed to: None

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Tristan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:01

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Needs more gold in the color scheme.

Ash78, voting early and often > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:03

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Vintage aviation just reminds me how much our collective risk profile has changed over the last century.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Ash78, voting early and often 05/16/2019 at 15:07

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This one nose planted on its first takeoff run, killing both pilots, demonstrating a primitive MCAS system.

user314 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:12

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Yeah no, if Trump was serious about getting a new plane, it’d be this one:

Or maybe:

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:14

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Or a profound lack of knowledge about COG.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:16

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Needs more wings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60

ttyymmnn > user314 05/16/2019 at 15:17

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Yuge! Seriously, though, don’t give him any ideas.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:22

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Eh,Trump aside, I kinda want to see the AU where NAA managed to get an SST into service, and it was accepted as Air Force One. 

ttyymmnn > user314 05/16/2019 at 15:27

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I think we might be seeing the return of SSTs in the not too distant future. Smaller ones, though. There’s been some serious research into mitigating sonic booms. The real deal breaker, though, is fuel economy. That much hasn’t changed since the Concorde days.

ranwhenparked > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/16/2019 at 15:29

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Ahead of its time, in a way.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:32

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Nose trim the hard way.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:46

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Yeah, turns out mitigating a sonic boom was easier than finding a way to create  them efficiently.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > user314 05/16/2019 at 15:47

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Tha may be what was promised, but the delivered product will be closer to

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:47

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Little column A, little column B... (/SterlingArcher)

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:48

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When KSP players design aircraft...

“Needs moar struts!”

ttyymmnn > user314 05/16/2019 at 15:51

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The drag probably canceled out all the lift.

user314 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 05/16/2019 at 15:53

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Eh, Trump’s more like Musk that way: his timeline is “optimistic” and the budget is too low by half, but it does eventually get done.

facw > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 15:59

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Boom Supersonic is claiming that theirs will be quite efficient. IIRC, cost per passenger mile less than half of what the Concorde had. Apparently the big thing is being able to do the whole flight without afterburners, which of course saves a ton a fuel. And they are claiming it will have trans-P acific range, which both makes good use of that speed, and implies much better range than the Concorde.

Of course we’ll see if they pull it off, but they ( and the other small SST startups) are definitely confident that improvements to engines and aerodynamics will greatly boost efficiency .

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/16/2019 at 16:11

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I don’t know, I think they’re getting more down-force than lift out of that arrangement. 

user314 > facw 05/16/2019 at 17:11

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Yeah, I’ll be curious to see how they manage that, short of IFR...