It's clearly racist that the rest of the world views the Japanese as underendowed, ineffectual, infantile manchildren in silly headbands and diapers, playing with doodie and screaming nonsense until red in the face. But to be fair to the ignorant, it's not like the Japanese seem to be bent on shattering any stereotypes now, are they?

I'm sure you all remember my post on Sput-Nip -- the shatirite the Japanese managed to raunch after a couple of strikes not too long ago. Well they're at it again. This time the half-century old technology they're hot on reinventing is commercial supersonic flight.

The Japanese first tested their unmanned prototype in 2002, but that flight "ended disastrously when [it] dived to earth and exploded in the Australian desert." They finally flew the prototype successfully yesterday. In the wake of their success, a JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) spokesperson said that it would "probably take another 15 years" for the project to become commercially viable.

The way I see it, 15 years is a little optimistic. I mean, it took them three years to recover from crashing the first prototype into the desert -- and that was basically a really fast model rocket. Now they've got to figure out how to put seats into the fucking thing.

For those of you who are curious, the Concorde first flew in 1969.


The second sushisonic model rocket, above, managed to avoid becoming a bloomin' onion in the Australian outback like its predecessor.

Analogcabin @ 10:26 AM
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