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So this looks pretty cool, and their marketing department already coined the term "atmospheric orbit", but their aircraft currently looks like vaporware. All of their videos are pre-rendered and the short clip in the article is too [0] small to be the aircraft they are trying to sell.

It also raises some flags when their quotes are from Senators and their "social proof" logos aren't customers they are supplies of the components they are using.

0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If8MODnvjhw




Fake it til you make it with sweet sweet government money (re appropriated from the citizenry for their own good)


I also noticed the prototype in the video doesn't have solar panels on it.




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