• @solomon42069@lemmy.world
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    962 months ago

    They need to join forces and make the Cyberplane!

    The Boeing Tesla Cyberplane could be a revolution in aviation:

    • First aircraft to use afterburners to overcome lack of aerodynamics
    • Heavy and yet strangely flimsy construction
    • Cell phones and radar can ignite the battery in flight
    • Fuel efficiency can be throttled mid air by shedding parts
  • @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    612 months ago

    “A ‘tragedy’ struck today as the Boeing-Tesla Air Force One and Air Force Two simultaneously rerouted to crash into the headquarters of Boeing and Tesla. The planes were running on Tesla ‘full self flying’ and staffed entirely with Tesla robots piloted remotely by human operators on the ground, so when they exploded only the president, vice president, and their advisors and guests (including Tesla CEO Elon Musk) were killed.”

  • @SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    482 months ago

    Lmao if a Boeing plane made from scrap parts ends up being the end of Trump it would be really really funny.

    They’re intentionally blocking the whistleblower suits against Boeing right now because they have been using scrap parts in their planes for decades in order to meet rushed delivery deadlines.

  • Rozaŭtuno
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    452 months ago

    I support this. And while we’re at it, why not give them a cybersubmarine too?

    • @BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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      182 months ago

      How about we tell the cheeto that the first person to touch the wreck of the Titanic gets dibs over all the priceless bottles of champagne, and the secret gold. Plus, international bragging rights. But you have to physically touch it to count, per maritime law. That’s why James Cameron and Oceangate were trying to get down there.

      Tell him Elon can probably build him a sub he can stick his arm out of. And once it’s claimed, it’s possible to raise and restore it, and he can rename it the Trumptanic. The largest and most luxurious liner in the world. Imagine how it would look pulling into harbor in North Korea.

  • @endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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    372 months ago

    Can we all talk of the true tragedy which is the onion going out of business due to real articles being unbelievable satire.

    • Phoenixz
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      52 months ago

      Yeah! How the hell is the union supposed to compete with reality?

  • FuglyDuck
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    oh. this is going to end well.

    Very, very well.

    cue Kaylee saying “Don’t fly anything made by Boeing, they fall right out of the sky.”

  • Phoenixz
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    332 months ago

    This is like Tom (from Jerry) working together with the Coyote (from road runner) to try and get air force one replacements available.

    To be clear: musk has nearly no engineering knowledge, whatsoever. He was fired for incompetence and literally all his idea are laughably stupid. At best he’s a scammer who got lucky.

    Boeing is a company that allowed greed to fuck it into the ground, literally, multiple times, killing hundreds for which they still haven’t been held responsible.

    Having said all that, please, by all means, I’d love to see the result of this freakshow marriage

    • @some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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      102 months ago

      Flying this administration around on planes “rushed” by Boeing sounds like it might be our best chance at deposing these fucktards…

    • @zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      32 months ago

      This is like Tom (from Jerry) working together with the Coyote (from road runner) to try and get air force one replacements available

      I get what you’re saying, but I’d trust anything Tom and Wile E. Coyote got from Acme over whatever Boeing is putting out these days

    • Pistcow
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      122 months ago

      As someone that builds the wings, I can whoele heartedly tell you that there probably isn’t a button that makes the wings fall off.

        • Pistcow
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          12 months ago

          Most of the wing structures are made in the good ol’ USA. The machinery required is a scale that no one is willing to invest in, even Boeing…

          • justOnePersistentKbinPlease
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            32 months ago

            Okay so what I know is that there used to be a Canadian company that made the wing frame for them. Had a giant CNC machine that would cut it from one aluminum block, even the 747.

            What I was told is that they offshored it.

            I know that those guys make stuff for Cessna now.

      • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        22 months ago

        What if they need to replace the wings quickly? Not having a button that makes the wings fall off sounds very inefficient and frankly irresponsible.

    • @Joeffect@lemmy.world
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      42 months ago

      Wings? What wings? Elon will come out with a wingless plane design like a fucking tuna can and then be praised for his stupidity.

  • @Zip2@feddit.uk
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    272 months ago

    Soon to be known as “Air Farce One”.

    Hopefully they’ll be banned from all the airspace over developed countries.

  • @labbbb2@thelemmy.club
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    “Defence”. They trust “defence”/planes to Elon Musk, to Russia’s puppet. Oh shit… I think Boeing airplanes’ security will decrease lol.

  • Meursault
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    232 months ago

    It’d be a shame if there was a critical malfunction in flight.