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I wonder if they'll have engines..
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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It'll be like the flintstones, where they hang their feet, and power the plane by running fast enough to take off. The pilot will be Usain Bolt.
The pilot can't be an engine.
Well not with that attitude!
Just another tech loser who wants to keep the US at war for profit.
He reportedly wants to design an entirely new avionics system from the ground up that will help the company create the “first light jet to focus on artificial-intelligence flight,” which could open the door for defense contracts.
What was the crime he was pardoned for? Ah yes. Fraud.
Trump has a soft spot for those types.
God this administration is so fucked up…
A scammer scams?
Yeah, that follows
Gonna take a lot more than one billion, son
Also so funny to me that he got out of prison and went 'i need to get on that AI fad which was blowing up!!' But he's going to find that nobody has the confidence to invest in it. I'm picturing a montage of him driving up to billionaire chums' houses and pitching to them and having the door shut in his face.
I’m not always of this opinion, but in this case a willing investor in this scheme deserves to lose their money.
Even just from a practical point of view, this sounds like a horrible idea. The pilot is about the one thing you should not skimp on.
There's plenty of other stuff not to skimp on on an aircraft. The body, wings and engines all come to mind.
Why don't plane companies already put computers in their planes, are they stupid??
Oh wait, they do. And they still have expensive pilots, because the billions from Boeing, Airbus, Garmin, Lockheed, BAE etc. couldn't get it to be perfectly reliable [1] in all edge cases.
[1]: actually, not reliable enough. Risk assessment and management in planes is a super fascinating topic, the only risk-free plane would never move and cost 50 quadrillion dollars
Autonomous planes or stochastic cruise missiles. You be the judge.
But at least everyone on the plane will look photorealistic.