flateric said:Boeing Pelican patent
overscan said:Tinwing: the 1 bit GIF format is ok, but its not very good for actually viewing onscreen.
overscan said:If you want to keep the images, I'd download them from the patent office in the original TIF files.
overscan said:I made the smaller size jpegs for viewing purposes.
Flateric resized the pics to small as monochrome, which is the worst of both worlds.
flateric said:OK, OK, I've resized them and saved as GIFs ;D
To Scott - you see that this Boeing propaganda paper dated March 2004 with Pelican appearence that changed 0% since it was unveiled in september 2002, while patent is February 2005. So it seems that if previous was Pelican ULTRA, this is Mini-M-Pelican My thoughts that all the money now pulled in Walrus backet and Pelican pretty RIP.
BTW, I'm sometimes shocked with maniac way Boeing patents every possible configuration of what they suppose worth a cent, like Sonic Cruiser.
Matej said:I am still wondering why it was proposed and marketed. Is anybody on this planet, who really thinks, that such a monstrosity can be designed, developed, BUILT and OPERATED in a reasonable time and with the reasonable costs? My opinion is, that it is the PR stuff: "Look, we are able to design the impossible." ...or at least to think about it.
Triton said:It started out as a Boeing Phantom Works research project in 2000 from a Department of Defense goal of placing a full brigade --moving 3,000 troops and 8,000 tons of cargo--on the ground anywhere in the world within 96 hours. Boeing chose to look at Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG) vehicles for this task
Matej said:I am still wondering why it was proposed and marketed. Is anybody on this planet, who really thinks, that such a monstrosity can be designed, developed, BUILT and OPERATED in a reasonable time and with the reasonable costs? My opinion is, that it is the PR stuff: "Look, we are able to design the impossible." ...or at least to think about it.