01.18.11
Future bombers and military transport of America
Upholding the Huffington Post’s reputation for worthless flake news on anything remotely related to arms developer megacorporations, aerospace and technology, this article on prototype images Northrop Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing in collaboration with NASA are using to soak the taxpayer this year:
Get ready for the next generation of passenger airplanes.
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, Northrop Grumman 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.
Click that link.
Yes, that s— looks just like what Nick Fury will be getting into to fly across the heartland in a few years. Perhaps with 100,000 pounds of JDAMs or a couple hundred troops in a military exercise on the way to Diego Garcia. While we go to work for nine dollars an hour at an athletic apparel and sneakers store selling stuff made in China.
And the third one, a sop to toss at commercial flight, will never happen.
Onward, forward and upward. More delusional garbage, please!