Comments on: Bailout Watch 565: Small Business Adminstration Dealer Bailout Grows

By: carsncars

carsncars — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:32:41 +0000

Like AMXtirpated said, Prandtl–Glauert singularities can happen at speeds significantly lower than the speed of sound, and should not be used as an indicator that an aircraft has broken the sound barrier.

By: AMXtirpated

AMXtirpated — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:22:52 +0000

If you’ve ever looked out a passenger jetliner window with a view of the wing during a takeoff or approach, if the meteorological conditions are right, you’ll see pretty much the same thing – water vapor condensing in low pressure regions created by the passage of the aircraft.

Either that, or this B-2’s got a Hemi.

By: .5MT

.5MT — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:51 +0000

It can’t break the sound barrier. The picture is a hoax srsly. It also can’t fly. It just uses the surface effect to fool the eye.

By: shaker

shaker — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:25 +0000

By the looks of the ‘chop, that B2 is headed for the ocean at 750mph…

Maybe a metaphor for GM, but I hope not. No matter how poor an ROI the whole deal is, I’m rooting for the thing to work out.

By: Austin Greene

Austin Greene — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:32:16 +0000

It looks like the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Come to think of it, the whole GM mess looks a lot like a voyage to the bottom of the sea.

By: Flashpoint

Flashpoint — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:16:10 +0000

As for the B2 Spirit – I was just about to say the same thing. The Spirit like the F117 is a subsonic cruiser and can’t break the sound barrier.

As for Obama, you gotta give him credit for being smart about the bailouts because the government FORCED all the banks to take TARP funds so none of us would guess which banks were having problems. THIS WAY, there would be no run on the bank (ala: Indy Mac)

By: gslippy

gslippy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:48:18 +0000

FWIW: If that is supposed to be a pic of a B-2 breaching the sound barrier, it can’t do that as a subsonic plane.

As for the dealer bailout: of course.

By: grog

grog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:43:19 +0000

Car dealers are some of the most politically connected people in America.

So are US Senators ala Bob “I’ll piss on GM and the UAW unless it’s to protect my parochial interest at home” Corker. Not much difference here when you scrape away the scales: same lizards underneath.