NASA's new plane won't have front window for pilots

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A 40 seat airliner would make for a reasonably sized large cabin business jet. I wonder which will happen first.
 
knot4u said:
I'll still watch that movie everytime I stumble across it, have to admit finding out more about Yeager later tarnished it a bit.
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Yeah, Yeager, by all accounts, is kind of a poopyhead. But he sat in close proximity to Bob Hoover and Pancho Barnes, and neither of them elected to kill him, so he must have some redeeming qualities. Plus, I'd put that movie in the top ten of "almost as good as the book", and I use that advisedly. The whole "Aborigines save the capsule" thing was a little silly, but the rest of it was pitch-perfect for Wolfe's book, and that ain't easy.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Yeah, Yeager, by all accounts, is kind of a poopyhead. But he sat in close proximity to Bob Hoover and Pancho Barnes, and neither of them elected to kill him, so he must have some redeeming qualities. Plus, I'd put that movie in the top ten of "almost as good as the book", and I use that advisedly. The whole "Aborigines save the capsule" thing was a little silly, but the rest of it was pitch-perfect for Wolfe's book, and that ain't easy.
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I was also lucky enough to spend a short amount of time with Bob Hoover before he passed, I've never heard anyone describe him as anything but a gentleman and probably the best stick and rudder pilot they ever knew. From what I've read or heard Yeager was the right guy at the right time, his attitude was probably beneficial to him in the days of "The Happy Bottom Riding Club" or whatever it was called, but some of his contemporaries have described a person that was not at all portrayed in the movie. Could you even imagine being involved back then? "Hey Ridley, you got a stick of Beemans? I'll pay you back.". I was born way too late.
 
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