if Lockheed made a car, would you buy it?

>>16238368
if it was made in the 80s or 90s yes
if they do it now it would look like any other crap

The question is, could I afford it?

Not after seeing how poorly the F-35 project was run, no. I'd rather get a Boeing or a Northrop

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they already tried.

>>16238463
Considering Northrop made the mail carriers, I would like to see what they could do with a civilian vehicle

>>16238475
It is an old S-10 chassis bobbed and with a shitty "longlife" 4 cylinder engine.

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How can American plane-cars even compete?

>>16238480
>Iron Duke
>shitty
So it doesn't make power, but the fuckers last a long time and it wasn't intended to be a performance vehicle, it was intended to be a reliable fleet carrier you mong, and Northrop hit the fucking bull's-eye when they designed it

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If Honda made a plane would you buy it?

>>16238510
Maybe if I was a toothpick manlet

>>16238510
Would it have vtec?

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if Mitsubishi made a car, would you buy it?

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>>16238508
the replacement is coming and they are going with another custome one off made by a specialty company like AMGeneral.

they should have just bought JDM Nissan e-NV200s.

>already right hand drive
>80 mile range means it can do 2 typical routes before needing to chage.
>EV so it will have a lot less maintenance and energy costs for the USPS.
>quiet
>stop and go low speed crawl is perfect for an EV
>is actually safe in a crash since it isn't some government custom that will get exempted
>already in the states as a nissan and a chevy

>>16238368
dont they make truck toppers?

>>16238572
>quiet

but I like the loud Iron Duke shittyness that I can hear so I know the mail is outside

>>16238572
I agree with all your points except the only thing I wonder is the quality of the battery array, mainly because Nissan/Renault

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>>16238368
Fuck yes I would

>>16238587
same battery pack and EV drivetrain as the Nissan LEAF. Which means it is very rock solid.

i have had two LEAFs since 2011, as leases. even with all the DC fast charging I do. which makes the battery hot. I never had a problem.

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If Porsche made a tank would you buy it?

>>16238600
Porsche's tank failed to win the Tiger competition.

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>>16238368
brap brap! Muh fighter plane heritage coming through!

>>16238598
Huh, but is it using the new gen Leaf's batteries?

>>16238368
>$1.5 Trillion car
>doesn't do anything better than the car it replaces.

No, thanks.

>>16238527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM9cXN5Bsng

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>stukka guys make a car
>when you're on the highway the car goes REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>16238474

>6' bed

Ptsssshhhh can't even use that for WURK.

>>16238585

They got nothing on the mack garbage trucks with a well sealed air system.

>TSSHHHHH
>VRU-VRRRRROOOOOO
>TSSSHHHHHH
>OOOOAAAAAAAawwww
>TSSSSHHHHH
>krreeeEEE
>TSSSHHHHH

All to move 40 feet.

>>16238585
Seriously, every single one sounds like it has open manifolds.

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>>16238510
They do make a light business jet. The HondaJet.

Would a Mazda plane have a rotary?

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If Apple made a car, would you buy it?

>>16240188
Possibly, but not a wankel.

>>16240097
>engines attached at the wing instead of the fuselage
As cool as that looks, what advantage does that have over fuselage-mounted engines? I can only think of cabin noise reduction

>>16240352
Wing spar can be smaller/lighter support because there's less weight on the fuselage

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>>16240381
i was going to tell you are retarded because how the wing spar needs to be stronger because the wings are on the engine

and then just before hitting the button i stopped and thought

i should do that more often

>>16240396
Yes. In flight, the wings hold the fuselage up, not the other way around, because that's where the lift comes from.

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>>16240429
yeah, i figured that out, i'm just happy i thought about that before starting to call you names

have some more blackbird

>>16240429
This.

And the wings generate a lot of the drag, which is what the engines are there to overcome. So, engines on wings and just let the fuselage go along for the ride.

>>16239078
>but it has a slightly smaller radar signature

>>16238510
Why aren't the turbines at the front?

>>16240483
Considering the speeding fines here in norway it might just be worth it.

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>>16240798
yeah, but the wing doesn't need spars for weight on the wing itself.

it does need stronger spars if the weight is on fuselage

>>16238560
Cars? Lol those props are better on a fan, m80. If they made an airconditioner, I'd totally buy it.

>>16239500
you need to get to max speed for this to happen
like when a passing maneuver goes wrong

>>16238368
usa really does make the most aesthetic warplanes.

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>>16240976
i've been strangely drawn to the swede planes

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>>16238368
absolutely not. I worked in automotive and I know people who work in defense. the QC in automotive is so so so much staggeringly more intensive than defense shit. In defense if the government likes what you make, you get a blank check and don't need PPAP or even a proper BOM. If you tried to build a car like defense contractors build vehicles it would probably have the performance of a sentra, the reliability of a alfa romeo, and cost as much as a 911.

and end up buried in a new mexico desert. after being produced 3 years after its originally slated SOP.

>>16240996
no country besides ussr comes close to usa in cool fighter designs. i swear every fighter usa adopted since the f-14 has mean aesthetics. its hard to take any fighter pre f-14 or non-US designed planes seriously

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>>16241082
you have literally 0/10 taste

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>>16241082
say that to my face fucker not online see what happens

>>16238368
>somebody clips your side mirror
>$95,000 to replace under warranty

>>16241139
by accident they send you the wing mirror for version B

>>16239096
Kek, sold!

>>16240442
this picture probably cost a few hundred grand to choreograph

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>>16241505

>>16240814
>jetranger
>AS350
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>16241082
How bout I slap your shit, bitch

>>16240352
probably the result of some autistic engineer messing with the center of mass / lift / thrust.

>>16238510
They do
https://youtu.be/XM9cXN5Bsng

>>16240870
http://www.mitsubishielectric.com/bu/air/

>>16238430
If you sell your house, you might be able to afford it

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Lockhead makes a car

>spends ten years in development, prototypes capable of various tasks, design is solid
>NTSB changes requirements, forces Lockhead to dramatically change design at the last minute
>new prototype can do some of the things NTSB wanted to do, but not all
>production model cant drive at night, in heavy rain, cant operate safely since it's marketing division now sells the car for a different role it was intended for
> Car hits the market place, kills dozens of skilled drivers, National and international regulatory agencies receive kickbacks from Lockhead, preferential contracts for construction in every country were accidents take place
>car continues to be made for 15 years while the steady trickle of avoidable deaths continues

Naw, I'll pass

>>16238607
Because Porsche kept trying to push the electric transmission and Germany didn't have the resources.

>>16238368
Does it have a turbine or somesuch JET engine?
Yes.

Otherwise?
No.

>>16244733
How is this different from any current car manufacturer?

>>16238615

Kek that blokes face

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What if they miniaturized planes into street vehicles? What would be your wing ride?

>>16242371
That looks like someone ripped the propellers off a 30 year old helicopter.

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>>16246443
>not driving an airbarge

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>>16238368
Only if it's styled by and has the performance of the SR71

>>16246512
So you want it to burn fuel, and take three states to turn?

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>>16246518
Sure, if I get to go mach 3+

>>16246518
>So you want it to burn fuel

I would prefer if it did.

>>16240352
Might get cleaner air further form the body of the plane

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>>16246443
C130 for haulin muh dirt bikes
CL1200 as a daily

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Yes, because it would be able to hover.

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>>16239500
stuka best

>>16246483
>insulting the A-4
You truly are a lost little lamb

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If Messerschmitt made a car, would you buy it?

>>16238510
Why are Honda still jerkin' their gherkins to this Asimo thing? Robotics has progressed to the point where bipedal robots are practically commonplace.

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>>16241082
Eurofighter might be a meme, but it's one of the sexiest planes going.

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>>16248642
it's literally generic post gen3 jet fighter
inline engine propeller > gen 2 jets > gen 1 jets > radial engine propeller > gen3 and later

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>>16248550
doubt it
but BMW made engines for Messerschmitt aircraft so BMWs are almost messerschmitts

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>>16248649
the 109 was powered by a Daimler-Benz engine tho

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>>16248642
My Mikoyans dont agree

>>16248786
>forward-swept wings

mah wingman

>>16240491
i swear this fwd meme is killing me

>>16240188
There are super Dimonas powered by 13b engines.

>>16248649
BMW made engines for the FW 190 though.

>>16248624
it's actually an industrial accident involving a small employee and in order to keep it quiet they offered them robotic limbs and a job as company mascot

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>>16240188
nearly every plane before jet engines had one.