so apparently, blogger is messed up, and i cant get in to write a post. lets see if thys works. i wonder if ive ever mentioned it b4, but as a kid, i wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. cuz i thought flying machines were the coolest thyngs in the world. like my magic carpet. only more mechanical. anyways, as life happened, that didnt work out. but i still have a thyng for flying machines. the comanche chopper is one of them. i bet i'd sell my soul to the devil to fly it. you know, have it on a helipad in my backyard, fly it around to skardu, shaghrila...here or here that will probably never be possible since the US Corps scratched the project and the machine will not actually go into production. the deal is... comanche the chopper, which gets its name from comanche the indian tribe could fly like... veritcal, horizontal (sideways), pull REALLY weird tricks... in short, defy gravity in an ultimately cool way. you HAVE to SEE it FLY to fall in love with it. to know what im talking abt. washington had put in a massive $8 BILLION and 20 long years researching for thys techy... and it had to be scrapped cuz each prototype was costing somewhere around $60 million. they figured it just wasnt worth it. it was lighter than the current choppers they are using... the apache... (currently being used in Iraq and Afghanistan) which looks really purty, but just isnt the same. Comanche was smaller, and way lighter.... 43 feet long and 7,700 pounds and was armed with stealth technology (to evade detection). it could fly 1,260 nautical miles on it's own, which basically means across oceans :p it did 80 knots flying sideways. which is more than my car can do going straight. *sigh* so here's the CNN story on comanche axing then there is the osprey. muhahaha the problem with thys flying machine is, while it rox totally, it crashes every tym it flies. *sniggers* lol... sorry, i know it isnt funny, but it's costing the pentagon $12 Billion to put together...but everytym it goes up in the air, it comes down with a crash. spending billions on a flying machine taht doesnt fly isnt a very smart thyng to do. muhaahahaha. while the V-22 Osprey doesnt look half as good as the other machines, it's supposed to be big news. here's how it works on How Stuff Works ;) so the news is, washington might be chopping thys chopper too, when it goes to the capitol in 2005 for review. that'd be the death of mean machines i tell u. i just hope they dont kill all them thyngamajigies b4 i can afford to purchase a few for my garage. bummer man!