re why not give billion to first year long moon residents in article apr iti org aws iti org allen w sherzer writes in article c sjdp f zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes in spite of my great respect for the people you speak of i think their cost estimates are a bit over optimistic if nothing else a working ssto is at least as complex as a large airliner and has a smaller experience base it therefore seems that ssto development should cost at least as much as a typical airliner development that puts it in the g to g range alan don t forget a huge cost for airliner developement is faa certification the joke is when the paperwork exceeds teh weight of the airplane it will fly the sr and teh x both highly ambitious aero space projects were done on very narrow engineering budgets partly because they didn t spend much on paper pushing there is some company in missouri trying to get funding to build light commercial transporters on a low cost basis mostly by reducing faa certification costs pat
