Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?" video.

  1. Zeppelin, there is something about actually floating in the sky that I love. Airships all the way, we need them back - and I mean more than just the Goodyear blimp.
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  2. If Richard Branson and Virgin (both European) couldn't get permission then a South African who lives in the US has no chance.
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  3. Zedfinite He sold most of his companies to start/fund the airline, his biography is a great book, he said that he cried when selling Virgin Music and Virgin Megastores but his dream was to run an airline, so now he leases the name to anyone starting up a business. So he own a handful of Virgin companies, mainly the air and space ventures, but gets royalties for the others.
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  4. Yeah, but it was subsidized to all hell and required new tires every other week at about 20,000 pounds each. keithbu's point was that what was expensive then might be cheaper to maintain now.
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  5. Rickle, you remembered that overland flight wasn't allowed yet you asked if some guy's UK to San Francisco flight was via Concorde? Is this just a geography fail with you being American or do you really think Concorde had such creative routes as to get from the UK to western US strictly over water?
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  6. And people bouncing off cars.
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  7. Skylon, using SABRE engines can do UK to Australia in about 4hrs. It uses air breathing rocket engines so does not require the massive O2 tanks that a rocket normally requires to exit the atmosphere, where it uses ballistics to come back down at it's target. The massive area the tanks would have taken up can be filled with passengers for intercontinental flight or cargo for space.
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