When was this taken? Musk’s plane has been in San Jose for 3 days and coming back to Dulles(?). Unless, he is flying someone else on it to the Tech Country.
It's probably referring to a sonic boom. The thing that makes such speed unviable commercially since you can't fly this over populated areas. That's what choked out the Concorde (plus the accidents)
* $100 is an aspirational "2 or 3 generations down the line. Initial targeted NYC to London are $2k.
* The whole point of the design is to *not* have a loud sonic boom, so you *can* fly it overland (though the FAA will need to agree, but they seem interested)
FAA is looking at a 75db sonic boom standard. I've seen varying numbers for Overture bandied about, but 70db is common. Concorde was 110. So a big difference.
Sonic booms are extremely complex and take advanced computer simulations to model, so it wasn't possible before.
I didn't realize it's the same XB-1 that pulled off the boom that doesn't reach the ground.
The financials suggested make no sense to me, though. It's not like a faster flight is going to take LESS fuel, and the passenger capacity isn't going to be HIGHER, so tickets will be more expensive.
To be fair, they added all these caveats that said "Ackshually it's up to the airlines who decide how much the fares are, we just think $100 would be a nice price" which is how the media game works
Disruptive sonic booms can be mitigated these days. NASA’s X-59 doesn’t produce one. Boom is working toward similar ends. They might be successful, they’ve already received orders from airlines (United i think?). Their testbed flew recently. I get why they’re at the White House but also 👎🏻 to that
He’s really not there cognitively. They’re just sticking shit in his hands and telling him to smile. I wonder if he’d frown if someone shoved the Constitution into his ham hands.
Nice color scheme it looks so familiar?Changing Air Force One’s color to resemble one of your many failed business is fitting,since he running America the same way
His base would embalm him and claim he is still able to give instructions to his Chosen Leader. The office of president would be defunct, instead Republicans would vote (amongst themselves) on who gets to Interpret The Will Of The Holy Trump
Because he’s a low-rent outer borough hustler and dresses the part? If you wanted to buy a used car from some guy on Cross Bay Blvd in deep debt to the Gambinos, he’d dress like this.
I can almost guarantee this is on purpose. Look at him standing in profile. He leans forward. The fabric hangs down to hide his size. He looks way better in a suit than he does in golf attire. Not good.
The golf stuff is always funny, it's his "SFe Space", he doesn't wear his makeup and looks like a corpse, thinking nobody will photograph him. It's like one of those "before/after" photos scam products use
I think menswear guy did some comments on it awhile back on Twitter that his jacket and tie are oversized because it does help mask how overweight he is. If you look at pictures of him without the jacket he does look bigger, look at his golf pictures.
Oh yeah that's real and actually kind of cool. Boom aircraft hit a milestone of breaking the sound barrier in their new craft a few weeks ago. It's built in a factory near me.
Just FYI, the term predates gen z by quite some time, but nyquil is a horrible drug to buy if getting high on dextromethorphan is your goal. Too many other ingredients, like guafenisen (will make you vomit) and acetaminophen (will shred your liver, very bad do not misuse drugs w Tylenol in them)
Best to get a kind of cough syrup that only contains DXM, or just like buy the powdered form off the internet, it's not illegal to possess. Or, smoke weed like an adult, bc the DXM experience isn't even that great... Or so I've been told
Yeah I thought when he was ranting about Air Force one he just wanted like, Boeings latest thing they already build. A brand new airframe? And also who else are they gonna sell this to? Lmao this ain't happening
He looks like what he is…a cheesy salesman who has had teeth capped, botox, hair piece. But the bruise on his right hand gives away that he is on blood thinners. i bet his whole body is bruised. Hmmm. Not as healthy as he says, go figure. (and yay!)
As if his smile wasn't scary enough. He looks like an alien who doesn't know how to smile spontaneously. "How do you humans smile? Maybe I can pull this muscle here..."
it's great how trump's hand looks like it's already decomposing, he's not even in the grave yet and he's already getting a start on looking like a rotting corpse
He was already advised that putting dark blue on the bottom of Air Force One is very dangerous. Does he want to be an easy target? Cause I’m all for it!
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Try it: say “God bless you Mary Poppins” in your best Dick van Dyke impression while squinting.
We're so f'd.
(manifesting 🙏📿🪷)
Von Don Musk 2025 🇺🇸😳
Fuck off !!!!!!!!!!!
And they want to charge $100 for it?
Not possible. This is vaporware.
* $100 is an aspirational "2 or 3 generations down the line. Initial targeted NYC to London are $2k.
* The whole point of the design is to *not* have a loud sonic boom, so you *can* fly it overland (though the FAA will need to agree, but they seem interested)
Sonic booms are extremely complex and take advanced computer simulations to model, so it wasn't possible before.
The financials suggested make no sense to me, though. It's not like a faster flight is going to take LESS fuel, and the passenger capacity isn't going to be HIGHER, so tickets will be more expensive.
me
he's so orange here
And I think I went high school with that guys kid
This is right up your alley!
He’s a dumb child who gets to use big words, play with toys and use a sharpie.
Maybe we could make that trend and Elon would take the bait, get him even higher than CPAC Ketamine
Got me feeling young-old & wholly naive @ 28
#musk #trump
A fraction of what he paid for Twitter.
So not only was Trump for sale, Elon bought him at a discount.
this made my night
I'm slightly surprised his spirit doesn't possess the portrait and have it drop a flying elbow from up there.