It'll be used for cargo and heavy lifting, but I don't think its going to work for consumer travel, as its a Terrorist dream come true target.
Gee, just like the Spruce Goose. Monster aircraft built for cancelled government contract.
Then we hung a left and started speculating on grading other aerospace and defense companies in fiction: Weland-Yutani gets an "A", Tyrell Corp gets a "D" (products keep going haywire often enough to require a permanent Blade Runner corps, poor corporate security, they pay their chief engineer so badly he lives in a slum, etc.). And so forth!
Quote from: Spam on August 18, 2016, 12:23:43 AMThen we hung a left and started speculating on grading other aerospace and defense companies in fiction: Weland-Yutani gets an "A", Tyrell Corp gets a "D" (products keep going haywire often enough to require a permanent Blade Runner corps, poor corporate security, they pay their chief engineer so badly he lives in a slum, etc.). And so forth!I'm not sure you can give Weyland-Yutani an "A" after a special order that says "Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded." And then you have guys like Carter Burke. No, no, they get a big fat "D." They're like the Siemens of the future.Consolidated Amalgamated gets a big "F" in my book as a defense and aerospace contractor: They underbid everybody for the Capricorn-series spacecraft environmental control system, which of course was later found to be incapable of supporting three astronauts from the Earth to Mars and home. And we see how that worked out. Not to worry, they secured some nice mining contracts on Io.Another is Delos Corporation. Those guys, geez. "F"InGen? After that little screw up on Isla Nublar, well. "F"Shall I continue?
Edit/add:I want to find out whoever the HVAC subcontractor is who has been making oversized air conditioning ducting for aerospace and defense for centuries, and rate them F. From the USS Seaview to the NCC-1701 Enterprise, to Weyland Yutani's ships, why do we keep buying the air ducts so dang large that the bad guys and aliens keep using them to infiltrate and kill people?!?BAD ENGINEERING!Wink, nudge,Spam
Quote from: Spam on August 18, 2016, 07:18:35 PMEdit/add:I want to find out whoever the HVAC subcontractor is who has been making oversized air conditioning ducting for aerospace and defense for centuries, and rate them F. From the USS Seaview to the NCC-1701 Enterprise, to Weyland Yutani's ships, why do we keep buying the air ducts so dang large that the bad guys and aliens keep using them to infiltrate and kill people?!?BAD ENGINEERING!Wink, nudge,SpamBecause to move X amount of air, you need a duct of Y size. Accounting for turns and such of course.
Quote from: Spam on August 18, 2016, 07:18:35 PMEdit/add:I want to find out whoever the HVAC subcontractor is who has been making oversized air conditioning ducting for aerospace and defense for centuries, and rate them F. From the USS Seaview to the NCC-1701 Enterprise, to Weyland Yutani's ships, why do we keep buying the air ducts so dang large that the bad guys and aliens keep using them to infiltrate and kill people?!?BAD ENGINEERING!Wink, nudge,SpamBut at least all those independent contractors have work. You're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia - this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.