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Originally Posted by Askold
What you can do instead is design a plane that is powered by fusion, by starting from zero. (Kinda like the "joke" about how the A-10 Warthog started from "we have this huge gun, how can we make it fly" rather than "we have this plane, what are we going to arm it with?")
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I always liked this idea, but it would be far, far more expensive and harder to conceal, and therefore much harder to justify.
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Originally Posted by Askold
And I still think that there isn't enough justification for jet planes. The only scenarios where rotor planes and helicopters aren't enough are so unlikely that they won't be worth all the trouble.
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Amen.
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Originally Posted by Askold
Meanwhile, Zeppelin's could have a place in Morrow project...
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Yes... burning on the ground, like ALL Zeppelins!!