Big ol’ jet airliner …
I’m getting ready to travel to New York next weekend for CIA Boot Camp, and have been thinking about the mess that is called air travel in the US. Isn’t it strange that essentially no new form of transportation has been invented in the past fifty years? Jet airliners were around fifty years ago, the first being the De Havilland Comet followed closely by the Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8. Today’s jets are bigger, faster and go more places, but the basic amount of time it takes to get from point A to point B by jet is unchanged over fifty years, especially when the overhead of airport security is factored in. Cars were around fifty years ago too. Even the Corvette is over fifty years old! While cars are presumably safer (although the number of fatalities isn’t all that changed over the past 50 years), and the interstate system is more built out, we can’t get around by car much faster today than we did in 1960.
No Action Required. Just complaining.
-Chris