MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft 176
Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design quieter, more energy efficient, and more environmentally friendly commercial airplanes. The two-million-dollar contract from NASA is just an initial step in bringing green technologies to the sky."
It's called a balloon. (Score:5, Funny)
So, you're saying... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, just had to sneak that in...
Been there, done that. (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Silent... aircraft. Huh. (Score:3, Funny)
Didn't hear it coming neither!
Nobody ever thinks of us poor runway maintenance folk when designing their 400ton aircraft :(
Re:Jet tehcnology can't do it ever (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:1, Funny)
Snake Plisken called: He wants his glider back before the capsules lodged in his arteries explode and he'll be dead in ten or fifteen sec...(*strangle/choke*)
Re:Silent... aircraft. Huh. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:5, Funny)
Or a slingshot.
Catapult?
Ballista?
Trebuchet?
Mankind can't consider itself advanced till we can send satellites to space using a trebuchet.
Re:Silent... aircraft. Huh. (Score:3, Funny)
wonder if CA will try to pass a law making these jets have a noise generator so that the blind can hear them coming (you know like their trying to do with eletric cars)
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:5, Funny)
What I thought. My last university spent £2m getting one of the campus buildings into Second Life.
Re:I can think how I'd do it. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:3, Funny)
Black Helicopters (Score:4, Funny)
It's about time that the stolen UFO technology currently being used in silent black helicopters is finally trickling down to private enterprise.
Re:Silent... aircraft. Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
the governor, citing that the issue was of paramount import for stealth in the imminent rise of the machines, vetoed
There we go, fixed that for you.
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:3, Funny)
They've had this feature in black helicopters for over a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter [wikipedia.org] How else is the UN and the Federal government going to control every aspect of our lives?
Re:It's called a balloon. (Score:3, Funny)
That'll do.. Can we resume our Magic game now please?
Black helicopters in whisper mode.. (Score:4, Funny)
Are a paranoids wet dream, cloaked black helicopters in whisper mode are already following me everywhere I go, I know they're there because I don't see or hear anything, really!
Re:Engine maintance costs. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, I hope not!