“Where’s my flying car?” is a popular joke, but the reality is that some of today’s transportation options would seem wildly futuristic to someone only a few years or decades ago.
“Where’s my flying car?” is a popular joke, but the reality is that some of today’s transportation options would seem wildly futuristic to someone only a few years or decades ago.
Imagine air taxis and drone deliveries becoming a regular part of your neighborhood! It's all part of the exciting topic of advanced air mobility.
Imagine a ship where generations of people live, have children, and die while the ship travels to a far off destination in space. These are known as "generation ships."
Did you know flying cars are actually a reality … and have been for over 75 years?
The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years.
It could cross the Atlantic in fewer than four hours - half the time of a conventional jet airliner. However its high operating costs resulted in very high fares that limited the number of passengers who could afford to fly it. These problems and a shrinking market eventually forced the reduction of service until all Concordes were retired in 2003.
A new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and sustainable. From reducing the sonic boom to a quiet thump to the possible pathways for supersonic to return to commercial aviation, tune into a discussion on the supersonic airliner that started it all and where we’re headed next.
Several companies are working to overcome the challenges of all-electric flight, and it’ll likely be a long time before your commercial plane goes electric. But smaller, shorter-distance applications of all-electric air transport might be just around the corner.