World’s largest airplane. It’s being built by a billionaire. It’s getting ready to fly.

[RugersGR8]

I know I can't do it, anyone else on the forum interested?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/14/vul...-worlds-largest-airplane-for-400-million.html
The world’s largest airplane is up for sale for $400 million
Published 2 hours ago Updated an hour ago
Michael Sheetz

 

[Aries]

I know I can't do it, anyone else on the forum interested?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/14/vul...-worlds-largest-airplane-for-400-million.html
The world’s largest airplane is up for sale for $400 million
Published 2 hours ago Updated an hour ago
Michael Sheetz

Are they willing to ship? LOL!

 

[TerryMiller]

Group buy?

That would haul a lot of firearms, people, supplies when the SHTF...

 

[MacFromOK]

Lol, they're selling it already?

One of the dumbest aero-designs ever created IMO. The stress on that connecting wing during turbulence must be horrendous.

 

[dennishoddy]

Lol, they're selling it already?

One of the dumbest aero-designs ever created IMO. The stress on that connecting wing during turbulence must be horrendous.

My thoughts exactly when seeing the first design.
But modern fly by wire technology probably uses the engines and flaps to make the stress neutral.
Most of the fighter jets used now couldn’t fly with a stick and rudder configuration.

 

[RugersGR8]

My thoughts exactly when seeing the first design.

Ditto here as well.

 

[MacFromOK]

My thoughts exactly when seeing the first design.
But modern fly by wire technology probably uses the engines and flaps to make the stress neutral.
Most of the fighter jets used now couldn’t fly with a stick and rudder configuration.

Most fighter jets probably won't break in half if the computer hiccups in level flight for a couple seconds either.

I'm guessin' there's a reason they're dumping this albatross so soon after completion.

 

[dennishoddy]

Even as early as the F-4 phantom, one of the first fly by wire fighters it was deemed not flyable in its first configuration.
The computer is the only thing that kept it airborne until engineers redeveloped the tail section into a design never seen before or since.
The F/4 is still popular around the world in foreign governments.

 

[SoonerP226]

I'm guessin' there's a reason they're dumping this albatross so soon after completion.

According to the article, there's an internal power struggle in the venture capital firm that owns the company that developed the aircraft. It sounds like it has very little to do with the bird itself.

 

[SoonerP226]

Most fighter jets probably won't break in half if the computer hiccups in level flight for a couple seconds either.

When I was a student employee in college, we had a list of famous software bugs posted on the wall. One of them involved a then-modern fighter (could've been the F-16, but it has been too long); it had a lovely bug that would invert the plane when it crossed the equator.