Would we be hearing about this if Duncan Hunter (R) weren't a candidate for President?

Would we be hearing about it if DuPont had given matching contributions to Brad Miller (D) (the Chairman of the committee raising the charges) over the years?

Likely not in either case. I say we toss them all out!

The DP2 sounds like the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. Yet, Ted Stevens, the "honorable" Senator from Alaska responsible for that misuse of tax revenue, is still fat, dumb, and happily sitting in office.

No different than Hunter and Cox in this case! Why can't they ALL be prosecuted like Cunningham, Delay, or Jefferson? Feinstein, too, for giving government contracts to her husband!

Hunter belongs in jail. But so does most of the California delegation, very few of whom should not be laughed at.
Who can say if its the fruits, fresh vegetables, forest fires or all that sunshine, but no other American climate seems more conduive to bribery.

The denial of science that is now the hallmark of the republican party and the USA military industrial complex leads the way to rampant cronyism and corruption in all contracts, conduct of war, and failures of enormous consequences. But hey, we are the USA and we have the media well tethered...

If that tiny version can't fly I don't see how it will ever carry 50 troops.

The wings are far too small and it looks nose heavy. They should put wings on it like the space shuttle's..

Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid, and Universal Healthcare dont work either? What's the big deal.

Take the MONEY spent out of CONGRESSMENS PAYCHECKS. Then we'll see WHAT WILL FLY!!!!

I don't see reference to the name of this aircraft. What is is called?

You guys missed Scott Gossard's post.

"Google the "Bell X-14" VTOL aircraft and compare descriptions and photos. Also, google Dupont and DuPont Areospace. The DP-2 is not on either website. I wonder why?

Is it time to remove some elected representatives mid-term?

Posted by: Scot Gossard | Jun 11, 2007 8:28:31 PM"

Now, go Google "Bell X-14" The X-14 Project ended in 1981 the DP2 started in 1986. Go look at a picture of the Bell X-14. The DP2 is a direct rip off.

$3M a year to research something... hmmm. is that alot of money? Lets see there are 300M people in the US. Somewhere around 50M businesses and another 50M importers that are taxed... and we are up in arms about the little plane that couldn't? Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.

Meanwhile in other news: we are paying upwards of 50 cents A GALLON in gas taxes, we are running deficits not because of a little plane that can't fly but because we think taking off our shoes at the airport is actually helpful. We are fighting a war that by any objective and historical perspective, we have already won. (all of our initial objectives were met long ago) We are watching our natural treasures decay and rot before our very eyes. We are watching our children receive crappy educations... but the little plane that couldn't fly is what makes the news.

Its no wonder the world hates us.

Scot Gossard, Scot Gossard, the Moran bus is here to pick you up. Are you kidding me? Burt Rutan, the same guy who took cheap shots at NASA because he thought space was boring, when it should be fun. Your post sounds nore like a Anti-Conservative rant that belongs on the front page of the READER. I hate to bring this up to you. but Republicans have been running San Diego for the past 27 years. The Military has a large Population in this FINE City. If you forgot, the Military tested a plane here in the 80's. Maybe you remember, that certain BOMBER that is in use today. As for the DP2, the testing has come along a lot further than this article expresses. Scot, I think I know why you are an EX-San Diegan. I would live in Florida too, If I were you. I don't Question you as a TRAITOR. I question your Competence.

Is this fake news? I don't believe there's actually an aircraft built named the DP-2.

Seems like a fraud.

Great. A $63 million, pig-nosed cessna. My tax dollars hard at work.

"The good news is that when it crashes, it only crashed from a foot or two off the ground."
- Congressman Brad Miller.
That's because it hasn't achieved more than a few feet of height, Congressman.
Go back to sleep.

Things that don't work/fly/etc = tilt.
"To my mind, $63 million over 2 decades is vastly cheaper that what has been spent..."
Change to: Things that don't work/fly/etc = drip, drip...
That reminds me; they indeed tested this thing, which by its appearance could not possibly fly (wings are too small).

It looks like another Howard Huges story, we need more people that on the inside to be inside of Jail, like mr. congressman cunningham

dan horn

Wow, great writing. Its almost, but not quite impossible to even know the name of the aircraft. Its in a link, not in the story itself. Makes it a wee bit hard to connect the dots to something else you might have read in the past.

But, hey, I've got a new name for 'the craft'. Lets call it 'the turkey'. Turkey's have trouble getting more than a few feet off the ground too.

How about we take the congress-critters who insisted on spending this money, put them on a desert island, and only give them a prototype of 'the turkey' to use to get off the island?

Reminds me of Steve Martin in that B movie remake of Sargent Bilko, and the hover tank. Well folks what do you expect from a bunch of village idiots elected to congress, I guess those $20K toilet seats purchased a few years back would sit nicely in the crew compartment of this abortion. One thing is true you can make brick fly if you spend enough money. OY!

Here we have the media doing what they do best. Reporting only what they want, a portion of the story. How many planes have they scratch built in their garage?Seems to me some individual came up with an idea to magnatize a metal plate and using graphite or some other metal powder made a reproduction of some document. It became the primary operating system for copiers world wide. NO BODY WANTED TO PURSUE IT INTIALLY! AND, some other idiot decided that it would be good to remove the hands from a watch and use numbers that clicked over digitally on a small screen. WOW, digital watches, clocks and just about everything else uses this technology today. NOBODY WANTED IT!
So, look around, so many products are available to you today because of these Ear marks, Programs or projects. Don't be so quick to Judge.

The money spent on this pursuit is rather small compared to the amount of money it takes to fuel our equipment our Army uses in Iraq. A pursuit for a cheaper more efficient form of travel is a noble one in this day & age.