>>My usage would be more along the lines of peaceful missions.
If you want peace, prepare for war. ;-)
>>Plus, as a software developer, such a vehicle would be just about the best software development office. A customer has an issue, I just fly over to their office, fix it, and then fly back.
Actually there's a special teleportation device called "Gotomeeting" for that. You can be right there using their PC while you sit in your bathing trunks at home eating crisps and watching Star Trek reruns.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
