Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle

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Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle

Post by Viv » Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:01 pm

I Just love the name of this article, the public funding pork barrel does get taken for a ride all to often, fantastic claims and blue sky technology that always seems to need a bit more cash to succeed, but it would be fun to dream it could really fly, never going to reach ram speed though ;-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22 ... arpa_pork/

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Re: Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle

Post by Mike Everman » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:13 pm

"DARPA*, the famous Pentagon wackboffinry bureau" ha ha ha
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Re: Miracle airship tech sustained by DARPA pork trickle

Post by Viv » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:22 pm

Hi Mike

Heres another DARPAesk description for the scram jet project http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26 ... y_to_blow/

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