Supersonic Green Machine sends greetings from the future
By Vlad Savov 
posted June 29th 2010 3:32AM
posted June 29th 2010 3:32AM
posted June 29th 2010 3:32AM
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so why is it green again?
@Bublik25 camouflage
@Bublik25
Because it's supposed to be a concept for "green" air travel, duh.
@Bublik25
Who cares what color it is, if this baby can cruise at the SuperSonic 4000 than it'll be able to get me from Aus to Saudi in under 5 hours!!
I just came from a 14.5 hour non stop 777 and man this will be a God Send!
@Bublik25
because the colour is green
@Zylam 5 hours ?? When craft go into Orbit or even high sub orbit then you are actually only talking minutes, probably about 40 minutes roughly.
Same rules dont apply when you are in orbit, remember in the atmosphere you would be doing supersonic speed against friction but in space normal speed as it is, is about 2000kph, so if they fire up the supersonic engines with no gravity then theoretical speeds of 10000+kph could be possible
@Bublik25
Coz' it was the cheap paint available. Nasa can't afford blue or red or purple these days
@Geek With Attitude
Cheapest
@smythc
Yeah... you might have forgotten the whole getting in orbit and getting off orbit time..
1+1h ? huhu...
@yuriythebest yeah camoflauge like the enemies dont recognize the giant c*** ready to ram them into the ground
@smythc
"Same rules dont apply when you are in orbit, remember in the atmosphere you would be doing supersonic speed against friction but in space normal speed as it is, is about 2000kph, so if they fire up the supersonic engines with no gravity then theoretical speeds of 10000+kph could be possible"
There is no "normal speed" in space. If you're thinking about satellites going around the planet they go that fast because they need to in order to stay in orbit. You can put more energy into them to move up to higher orbits, or ultimately escape orbit, and you can take energy away in order to drop orbit, or eventually enter or crash.
But satellites moving around have nothing to do with how airplanes traverse. On that note, there airplanes need, you guessed it, air. The engines need air to operate, and without air the wings can generate no lift. Also, the speed of sound is the magnificent number of 0 in space. Sound needs a fluid medium to travel, like air or water. No air in space = no sound. So talking about supersonic engines in space is ridiculous.
That picture shows the edge of space, but that's just conceptual art.
@Engadget
Those engines look to be ABOVE the wing, so why do you guys say "engine-under-wing configuration?"
@Bublik25 Oh man!! you gotta try some of this LSD stuff MAN, it's the real thing, MAN!! The sky's are turning green MMAAAANNN.!!11<
:)
Its a squid sans tentacles, so it wont be humping spaceships or sattelites anytime soon....
Yea looks like just another render which will never be completed. Reminds me of that HP tablet and the Courier.
@kyphem
Totally comparable in every way to tablet computers, too.
@kyphem HP Compaq TC1100 said hi from 2003.
What about leg space?
@GoodToGo
Considering the reduction in time sat, I'd forgo the luxury of comfort for less time traveled.
Lockheed Martin and every other airspace company always have really impressive concept art of futuristic designs , but they never get built cause they either dont actually work , are too expensive , or are just silly.
Come on guys its the 21st century , screw a flying car, i would settle for a commercial supersonic passenger airliner like the concorde !
@IMarius
talk about silly: the concorde concorde was extremely inefficient, too noisy to use most airports, carried less than 200 people, famously exploded over paris, and cost over $15k round-trip to europe.
@patches66
but it was all first class. There's still no better way to cross the Atlantic.
@IMarius
Actually, the noise issue was fud spread by rival aircraft manufacturers (no need to name them, right?) who were trying to create their own supersonic airplanes. The concorde would only get to supersonic speeds at high altitudes, which bring no boom issues to airports or cities.
@sviola
Sorry was directed to patches66...
@patches66
I am saying we should rebuild the plane , i am saying it weird that in the 70s i could have travel from london to new york faster then i can today.
Either airbus or boeing the two biggest airspace companies
in the world really put some effort into it, they could develop a replacment that could carry more then 200 people and is more efficient. They have more experience and almost 40 years more technology to use.
As already pointed out it was not actully very noisy.
and the concorde was expenisve cause it was the first of its kind to be
developed and they where never able to sell them to other airlines.
If a real replacement was built i am sure there would be a high demand. On routes over the alantic and plastic ocean, and ticket price could end being better then concorde.
Oh so *that's* why people put those giant spoilers on their honda civics... to reduce the sonic boom. I always wondered.
@ChuChu
Chuchu Rocket!!!
A space station inhabited by ChuChus (which are little tiny mice), has been invaded by evil KapuKapus (which are giant orange cats). These cats are out for blood, and want to feast on our rodent friends. Though the ChuChus are technologically advanced enough to design a space station, they aren’t smart enough to know how to escape it, and it’s up to you to guide them to escape rockets before the KapuKapus get them.
Yik!
knowing NASA, this ship has already gotten the green light on getting a model built from it. But... because it is NASA, it will likely remain that way until they decide to phat it out with white and black colors and remove that stylish tail arc thing. looks like something from star ocean btw
@jappleng
came back to add pic of the calnus from SO4
http://gallery.techarena.in/data/1/medium/star-ocean-the-last-hope-xbox-360-367.jpg
Nice
Actually it looks just like a Naboo Royal Starship (the one from princess Padmé):
http://independent1.net/NabooRoyalStarship-1-288-Photo.jpg
@JonJon Add some guns to it and they've successfully created the Gekko from eureka 7. http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc57/happyman38/gekko.jpg
@JonJon
That craft has no rudders! I wonder why would they need wings but not rudders?
It's not easy being GREEN....
@icon808 Trying to stay each day the colour of the trees.
I can imagine something like that balanced in flight, but looks very nose-heavy for take off and landing.
There's no VFR in the future, apparently.
哇噻，流线型的机身好漂亮！Made by NASA?
Wasn't this in Thunderbirds?
It looks like a tutorial object from a "Learn 3D Modelling In 14 Days" type book.
PS: NASA, are you sure it's an airplane? It appears to orbiting the earth. Dunno what good it's wings and jet engines will do it up there, but hey, you're the rocket-scientists, I'm sure you know what you're doing.
@mike260
It's an airplane unless it flies free from the planet's gravity... And anywhere below 500km AGL you get earth's atmosphere, though thin, even ISS gets aerodyamical effect from its solar panels.
@num0: "It's an airplane unless it flies free from the planet's gravity"
Uh, the ISS is an airplane?
@mike260
the moon is an airplane?
@mrqs That's no moon...
@mike260
How do you think it gets up there? Magic?
@Freeskier93
I have no idea how it got to that altitude, hence my bafflement.
It's pretty hard to judge, but looking at the atmosphere slice in the top left of the photo it appears to be well beyond the stratosphere, which rules out air-breathing engines.
That is by far the coolest aircraft I have ever seen.
nice plane, hope there's room for at least two people :)
I, for one, would welcome the Concorde of XXI century. Traveling across the great Atlantic pond is starting to get unbearable...
Nice expensive lawdart, it'll sure look pretty when it augers into the ground.
Interesting positioning of scramjets above the wing instead of blended into them. Better be as at the altitude they slapped the render into those engines would be stalling. Seriously this is the best concept design they can come up with? That's a 3 minute poly if that.