It's interesting that marketing/business folk are targeting the rich people who can afford these luxuries.
It's sad that the aerospace industry has not really commercialized faster planes. With the exception of the now discontinued Concorde, flying time has not really changed in the last 10 to 15 years. The Concorde itself shows that the technology is readily available. But I guess a struggling airline industry and soaring gas prices may be reasons why companies are not investing into developing faster planes for commercial use.
Nice big leather seats with nifty gadgets may be luxury flying. But getting half way around the world in 5 hours is really first class.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It's interesting that marketing/business folk are targeting the rich people who can afford these luxuries.
It's sad that the aerospace industry has not really commercialized faster planes. With the exception of the now discontinued Concorde, flying time has not really changed in the last 10 to 15 years. The Concorde itself shows that the technology is readily available. But I guess a struggling airline industry and soaring gas prices may be reasons why companies are not investing into developing faster planes for commercial use.
Nice big leather seats with nifty gadgets may be luxury flying. But getting half way around the world in 5 hours is really first class.