Engineering foir the future?

[TSR2]

BAe Test flight, looks very interesting, so no doubt we'll sell theidea to the USA

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11431662

[DaveB]

Sell it??? Er, no. We'll give it to them or they'll simply take it

ATB
DaveB

[FlyTexas]

How about 100 of 'em. When can you deliver?

Brian

[airboatr]

or they'll simply take it

ATB
DaveB

Rest easy Dave, we'll at least give you beads and shinny bits of metal.

[FlyTexas]

Rest easy Dave, we'll at least give you beads and shinny bits of metal.

Historically speaking those are our standard forms of payment.

Brian

[airboatr]

Dare I mention where we got the idea from?

[aeroart]

Very interesting. Certainly reduces complexity, and probably allows more of the engine's power to be directed where it should be -- pushing the airplane. Maybe a little more air blowing possible to include boundary layer control?

Art

[emfrat]

Silly me! - I thought it was ailerons, elevators and rudders that controlled movement in the air, not flaps. Now I 'll never get a job with the Beeb
ATB
MikeW

[aeroart]

Fortunately, journalism majors don't design airplanes or name the parts.

My "favorite" is when they call F-16s and similar, "fighter jets." That would make the Spitfire and Mustang "fighter props." Another was when the FAA figured out what had happened to that DC-9 that was trying to do outside loops off Los Angeles, and crashed into the Pacific. One news guy was saying how it was the failure of the mechanism that operated the "horizontal tail wing."

It also says very little about journalists when they say that an airline which is having financial problems is experiencing turbulence or is in a tailspin. I also saw that sort of thing in Aviation Week & Space Technology, a highly-respected industry magazine. I sent an email to the editor, stating that a professional publication shouldn't be resorting to cutesy journalism. I never heard from him. Wasn't that odd?

Art

[Garry Russell]

When an sircraft ran off the local runway due to port engine failure, the sole passenger, an American engineer said on the TV news that things started to go wrong when the left engine entered a mode of non operation ...Ah, right..... it stopped