Neat new idea

C J Campbell wrote:

If you hit a bird with that flying lawn mower you at least could have
shredded tweet.

You're not doing your claim to have an excellent sense of humor any good with
this sort of behaviour.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in
:

The NY Times did a short story on this aircraft. Sounds like it will
fill a need if full-size versions work as expected.
http://www.fanwing.com

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise.

It won't make it for the same reason the large "lifting body" airliners
won't make it... it looks funny & people don't want to pay to fly in
something that's funny lookin'

ET

If you hit a bird with that flying lawn mower you at least could have
shredded tweet.

ducking and running for cover

And I suppose if a chicken came through the windscreen it really would be a
"cockpit".

Sorry, that was a fowl joke.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
...

If you hit a bird with that flying lawn mower you at least could have
shredded tweet.

ducking and running for cover

And I suppose if a chicken came through the windscreen it really would be
a
"cockpit".

Sorry, that was a fowl joke.

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Oh no, I can see this thread is going to the birds.
--
Jim in NC

....so i'm just sitting here, minding my own business, readin the
airplane stuff when he comes up with :

shredded tweet
first time i've really laughed outloud in too long.


thx

dan

"ET" wrote in message ...
"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in
:

The NY Times did a short story on this aircraft. Sounds like it will
fill a need if full-size versions work as expected.
http://www.fanwing.com

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise.

It won't make it for the same reason the large "lifting body" airliners
won't make it... it looks funny & people don't want to pay to fly in
something that's funny lookin'

ET


Spaceship One is pretty funny looking. Maybe charge a premium for the unique experience...

"John Harlow" wrote in message

Even a helicopter has a chance of landing if the engine quits. I can't
say
the same for this.

Parachutes. OTOH, it looks crazy to me, too. But they probably said that
about Orville and Wilbur.

-c

"Allen" wrote in message news:W0hDd.7511$

Where do the de-ice boots go?

No need...it pulverizes the ice and spits out snow like a sno-cone machine.
For an additional fee, you could inject blue food dye (or fuel) to scare the
blue-ice conspiracy theorists.

=c