{"id":400548,"date":"2021-06-04T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=400548"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T19:02:48","slug":"united-airlines-brings-back-supersonic-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/06\/04\/united-airlines-brings-back-supersonic-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Brings Back Supersonic Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: This is inspired by the fact that United Airlines has decided to bring back supersonic flight and they\u2019re looking at a deal to do this. Do you remember the days of supersonic flight? There is in the Boeing Museum. Yeah. It\u2019s in Seattle. One of the Concords is there — and what was it, an hour flight from New York to London, something like that? Remarkable, that we can do that.<\/p>\n

\"\"That is using mathematics and science to study order, in order to be ordered on top of it. That form of understanding of order, means that we\u2019re capable much enforcing great order, and taking advantage of great order. We\u2019ve been given this intelligence, which on the one hand, in a scientific discovery sense, it\u2019s very inspiring. On the other hand, watching disorder purposely inserted into our political world — in fact, our life world — is very frustrating.<\/p>\n

Now, Rush loved political order, rule of law, right? He shared with us, his belief in God, particularly towards the last few months of his life. He was so gracious in that regard. The Maha loved his airplanes. He loved airplanes. He loved tech. I can hear him talking about going to visit with the captains of EIB One. “How does this work?<\/p>\n

“How does that work?” and he wanted to understand this. So the news of the supersonic flights might be coming back. It would have thrilled the Maha, and Rush would have been so anxious to discuss this with us. He loved technology. He loved aeronautics. Listen to him, how he explains flight.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Flight is a series of compromises. To get something that weighs as much as your average jet airliner off the ground requires more power than you ever stop to consider. You hear all about lift or aerodynamic air pressure that makes an airplane fly, but you have to get a certain speed going before that air pressure differential is created. And the heavier the airplane, the faster it has to go.<\/p>\n

\"\"I was on an El Al 747, they let me sit up in the cockpit, a long time ago. It took nearly every foot of the 10,000-foot runway at JFK to get the thing off the ground. You\u2019ve got to get up to speed, it takes a long time, just the weight of these things. It\u2019s all about what you\u2019ll pay for. If you want to travel supersonic you are gonna be paying out the nose for it, at current technology.<\/p>\n

And then you can\u2019t do it over-populated areas \u2019cause of the sonic booms. It break people\u2019s windows or your animals would go nuts and go crazy. So you can\u2019t even do it unless it\u2019s over the ocean. But the whole thing was fuel. The wings, parts of fuselage, in order to have enough to even fly supersonic. And here\u2019s the thing about flight. The faster you go — people don\u2019t think about this — the faster you try to go through the air the more fuel it takes because the resistance that you face builds up.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going through the air faster, the air coming against you is faster, that\u2019s more resistance. That\u2019s why you want to fly as high as you can, where the air is thinner and there\u2019s less resistance, so it takes less fuel. That\u2019s why, if you can fly at 51, you\u2019ll do it. If you can fly at 43, you\u2019ll do it. If you can only fly at 35, 37, it\u2019s gonna cost. There really is no way that we can fly at current prices any faster than we do.<\/p>\n

I just know they\u2019re always looking at it. But there\u2019s only so much you can do if you want to fly right up to the speed of sound. I think the fastest corporate jet is the Cessna Citation X, and it is Mach .9, something or other, but only on precise conditions. And it costs. It\u2019s just the faster you go the more fuel it takes to get you through the air that fast, because the resistance builds up.<\/p>\n

\"\"You start going supersonic at 2,000 miles an hour as opposed to 550, which is what the Concorde did, Concorde 1500, how do you get to London in three hours? It takes a lot of fuel. So you gotta buy the fuel. Then you gotta maintain the airplanes. You gotta cater them. You gotta pay the people that maintain and staff them and so forth. It just became cost prohibitive. And the only two destinations were to London and Paris.<\/p>\n

I remember Bill Buckley once chartered one for an around-the-world trip with National Review donors and so forth. They went to Australia. That\u2019s the one where they had to fly in a replacement because a portion of the rear rudder came loose, fell off during flight, on their way in to Australia or something. I remember seeing a picture of it on the ground. Commercial aviation.<\/p>\n

I was once on a flight around Christmastime to California, and a pilot was deadheading, and he was sitting next to me, and he was explaining this theory. He was the one talking about flight being a series of compromises. “Look, you want to get something this heavy off ground this fast? Here\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna cost you. Are people gonna pay that? That\u2019s what the airlines have to determine, and there are demands that people have.<\/p>\n

“They expect speed to be this and that but it costs X, and it\u2019s all contingent on the price of oil.” By time you start talking about going supersonic, that\u2019s an entirely different aerodynamic design and fuel consumption. They fly at 60,000 feet. In order to get there… You know, it takes awhile to get up that high because you\u2019ve got to burn off burn off a certain amount of fuel to get rid of the weight.<\/p>\n

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