Elon Musk has never been accused of thinking small, but his latest reveal—delivered at a packed, neon-lit aerospace showcase in Boca Chica—sent shockwaves rippling through the aviation and space industries simultaneously. This wasn’t a rocket, and it wasn’t a plane. It was something else. Something that shouldn’t exist yet. Something Musk called The StarJet. When the hangar doors parted and the jet rolled forward under spotlights, the room fell into a reverent hush. Sleek. Needle-narrow. Matte-black like obsidian pulled from another world. Its fuselage tapered into a long, razorlike nose cone, while its wings—only modestly larger than a fighter jet’s—angled...
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