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probably easier to ask Elon to start building airplanes
by flamedoge 3y ago
probably easier to ask Elon to start building airplanes
- nativeit 3y agoYeah, because he’s the beginning and end of prudent reliability.
- andix 3y agoThat was one of my first ideas, because it could actually work out. But it has the potential to become even more problematic than Boeing.
- avgDev 3y agoGreat idea! After all Musk himself he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else.
- randmeerkat 3y ago> probably easier to ask Elon to start building airplanes I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I had the same thought. I can’t imagine that building an airplane is more complicated than self-landing rockets. He could integrate them with Starlink too so customers on the flight had actual wifi that works.
- MichaelNolan 3y agoThe reusable, self landing rocket is certainly more complicated in some ways. But airplanes, and their engines are probably more complicated in other ways. SpaceX’s rocket engines are an engineering marvel. But they only need to run for minutes at a time. Aircraft engines can run for hours at a time, and for 10s of thousands of hours before a major overhaul is needed. It’s a different kind of complexity. On the starlink side, customers will get that anyways. The existing plane operators will start using it for their internet.
- neuronexmachina 3y agoApparently at the Monaco Grand Prix he was overheard mentioning to Tony Stark his idea for an electric jet.
- speedgoose 3y agoSome years to catch: https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/low-carbon-aviation/hybrid-and-electric-flight https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/low-carbon-aviation/hyb...