Should it be bigger airliners, faster airliners, vertical takeoff and landing airliners, or personal jet packs? Or should it be something else?
In the 1960s several designers were working on supersonic transports. The American SST was not funded by Congress and never flew. The Concorde flew successfully for several decades but was never a truly practical transportation system. The Russian SST, as far as I know, never made it into any kind of regular service.
The aviation industry responded with jumbo jets, which dominated air travel for decades. Now the trend seems to be smaller jets and more frequent flights--which overloads the air traffic control system.
Where would you like to see air transportation take us next? Hypersonic travel? Bigger jets such as the new Airbus? Or just a lot more of what we have now?
In the early 1930's American Airlines' C.R. Smith asked Douglas to design what became the DC-3. What should a modern C.R. Smith ask for today?
2007-11-24
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Warren D
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