Yeah, it also tested Depends underwear and/or a piss tube and/or a crap chute.

. . . so what's your point? --other than you wanting to change the subject off of PV aviation, and on to Rutan.

Hey, why not move it up another notch and claim that this PV-plane is just like putting a man on the moon?

It's soo cute when you get backed into a corner and bust out the lawyerly speak.

Or should we just conclude that you are too stupid to comprehend Tim's well stated point . .

Let me help you out, French-Fry, with your comprehension.. That sure seems to be that to which Tim is not avoiding in reference to support for a laundry-list of light-weight sensor applications. ...or did you think that, your post there, implies that people would be up in those machines? :rolleyes:

Oh, and french-fry Esq, doo tell how a blimp (PV powered, or otherwise) or a satellite could not do the exact same tasks, but better..

Actually it does support my conclusion.

If you keep messing with RPK he's going to cut your ears off and make a necklace, like they used to do when he was a Green Beret.

No.

hyperbole is your modus operandi. :eek:

Note, I was not the one to bring up Rutan first, but of course your comprehension levels are notoriously low as demonstrated again.:rolleyes:

Should we recap this thread, for you unable to read the entire thing?

First some of you nitwits complained about the waste of American taxpayer money. You were 180 degrees off on that bon mot.

Then there was the knee-jerk US political reaction of the anti-green group. Again, there wasn't any US political involvement in the OP post. But , knee-jerk reactions are clear evidence of thoughtful examination, right?

After, being shot down like a rabid dog for those faux pas of displayed idiocy, this circle-jerk group then attacked it as a useless achievement and of no value. When it was pointed out that the US Air Force, the Air & Space Museum, the EAA, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, AOPA, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale,and others all had shown support and understanding far beyond what your feeble minds could conceive of, you must resort to infantile attempts at misdirection and dodging the very points that were turned against you.

Well done! :eek:

What a bunch of sorry assed pwn'd idiots you are.:rolleyes:

I would not even charge to feed you through a court room shredder, I only charge for work.

At least I don't go around claiming to have the ability and will to fight to the death, when no such situation was experienced in military combat. :rolleyes:

I don't think I originally mentioned tax payer dollars being wasted although any time PV solar is discussed, you might as well because the majority of it has been aided by govt subsidies or by excess taxation of other forms of energy.

The results of showing PV powered aircraft to the masses helps foster support and helps clear the path to more govt spending of tax dollars on PV production which will never be a large scale affordable source of energy on it's own.

I lumped all the critics in one barrel. So please do not think I was putting words into your particular mouth. But no where did the concept of " PV powered aircraft to the masses" exist in my posts nor in any of the sites related to this effort. So I don't know where you have come up with that idea.

Tim, lets get back to some civility. I apologize for any insult toward you on this thread, but it did not appear as if you had read, watched or researched concerning this effort. It still doesn't appear that way.

I would be very, very careful about statements like this "PV production which will never be a large scale affordable source of energy on it's own". These kinds of statements have a nasty habit of coming back to bite you in the butt. How do you know PV will never amount to much? Do you have any future developments already in hand?

HEY FRENCH FRY

IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO? . . .Rick talking about if NASA made a BLIMP!

Oh, and not the second post in this thread
. . .you CAN read pictures, can't you?

. . .what does it say on that plane there.

I think it says; Richy Pee Kay (Esq) is an idiot.

But at least you still have this RANT

So, do you see what happened there, Richy Pee Kay?

The Swiss are not the only ones playing with money and doing engineering exercises with solar powered planes.

What happened there, happens often in OT - a post goes to a tangent, and some will comment on that tangent. --deal with it whine boy.

Oh, and all of those who think that this project is some new 'thinking outside of the box' consider this;

On July 7, 1981, the "Solar Challenger" aircraft flew 163 miles from Paris to England with pilot Stephen Ptacek at the controls. (5 hours and 23 minutes)

Solar Challenger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So excuse me if I don't jump up and down at the great intentions of the Swiss & Germans and how much money they want to spend for an anomaly flight.


btw, has their slow plane even gone as far as the Solar Challenger did almost three decades ago?

Who ever said the Swiss were the only ones? Just not the ones in the OP. I have dealt with the comments that clearly indicated most posters were commenting with sweeping generalizations about and entirely different project (see pic you posted), as others also commented on this error.

After your circle-jerk group was corrected on the US tax payer error, your minions of ignorance launched into critiques of technologies that were clearly outside their small knowledge base (as you are wont to do repeatedly).

Then we address the commercial applications where you, Gilligan, repeatedly tried to belittle this project comparing it to blimps and satellites, all which of course have already been addressed by numerous experts in named and posted international aeronautical groups (not that you have researched them), but that we are supposed to believe that your abilities and opinions surpass theirs.

A tangent is not the cause of your ignorance and stupidity, only life long practice can attain the levels you display.

Don't worry about being so lost, it is fitting with your whole character, Gilligan.

What a congenital idiot you are. :eek:

It has surpassed both distance and time by several fold. Read about the overnight flight it just successfully completed.:rolleyes:

Good god man, are you really this stupid?

Everyone go to their respective corners. Thread closed.