Well, I'm not tring to plow a field with them. And I don't know if you've ever driven
a Ferrari, but I have and they're really competent. In fact, I've owned two of them in
the past! These kinds of vehicles are the safest and fastest vehicles I've every driven!
And I never gotten tired or sleepy driving one, and I've taken them on long trips and
driven them at speed in bad weather. In fact you should have heard the comments from
my passenger, on a business trip, in bad wether: "this thing feels better the faster we go".
Anyway to end the anology, but all cars should be as competent!
So we will stop using supersonic airbreathers and use rockets instead ?
Why am I bringing that up? Because we successfully developed supersonic (Mach 3+)
airbreathing technology because we needed to.
We haven't built a hypersonic airbreather because we haven't ever needed one.
A number of companies have proposed them, and have shown that they could be built,
but they were never funded.
So you're basically saying that the technology has all these problems, but we
haven't finished developing the technology and funded building one, except for a SSTO,
which is like von Braun or Goddard trying to build the orbital rocket first.
As proper development occurs, the technology problems will be solved.
