New X-plane flies at Calif. air base [Archive]

azn_132

07-27-07, 02:45 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070727/ap_on_sc/blended_wing_body

Chock

07-27-07, 08:17 AM

Wonder where they got that idea from...

http://www.warbirdforum.com/horten.htm

:D Chock

Oberon

07-27-07, 09:37 AM

Looks like a B-2 and a DC-10 met up after a drunken night out, and the B-2 invited the DC-10 back for coffee at his place... :doh:

Good idea though :up:

SUBMAN1

07-27-07, 10:00 AM

Well, if you've followed the program, the passngers don't get any windows either.

Each and every person will get an LCD with shich they can see outside. This has the added benefit of keeping passengers stupid in the event of an emergency, since the LCD's can just be shut off from the cockpit. Can't sue for anything that you can't see now can you? :D

-S

Jimbuna

07-27-07, 10:06 AM

How about injury to the thought process passages ? :lol:

Chock

07-27-07, 10:08 AM

I can see it now, there you are in seat 23A with your hair and clothes hanging up towards the cabin roof, while you struggle to cope with minus five G from an inverted spinning death dive, and in front of you the screen is displaying 'Think Happy Thoughts' in a nice friendly typeface, while it plays 'The Girl From Ipanema' to you, occasionally urging you to browse through the in-flight shopping magazine for a tacky pseudo-Rolex. In the distance you can vaguely hear; 'Whoop Whoop, Terrain, Whoop Whoop, Pull Up'.

:D Chock

SUBMAN1

07-27-07, 10:16 AM

I can see it now, there you are in seat 23A with your hair and clothes hanging up towards the cabin roof, while you struggle to cope with minus five G from an inverted spinning death dive, and in front of you the screen is displaying 'Think Happy Thoughts' in a nice friendly typeface, while it plays 'The Girl From Ipanema' to you, occasionally urging you to browse through the in-flight shopping magazine for a tacky pseudo-Rolex. In the distance you can vaguely hear; 'Whoop Whoop, Terrain, Whoop Whoop, Pull Up'.

:D Chock

Yep - something like that. Too bad you can explain what was going on outside now can you? - supposing you survive.

geetrue

07-27-07, 08:45 PM

I would like to see them make this X-plane into a ASW seaplane version.

Now that would be cool ... :know:

XabbaRus

07-28-07, 05:17 AM

I like it. This has been ongoing for sometime with Cranfield in the UK doing a lot of the study work in conjunction with MIT.

Jimbuna

07-28-07, 06:19 AM

The truth is out there....does anyone know the url ?

Weigh-Man

07-28-07, 08:20 AM

Ignore

Weigh-Man

07-28-07, 08:23 AM

Ignore

bookworm_020

07-29-07, 11:18 PM

Well, if you've followed the program, the passngers don't get any windows either.

Each and every person will get an LCD with shich they can see outside. This has the added benefit of keeping passengers stupid in the event of an emergency, since the LCD's can just be shut off from the cockpit. Can't sue for anything that you can't see now can you? :D

-S

Or it could quote chicken run and put on the screen "Put your head between your knees and kiss your bum goodbye!":D