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By: 14th December 2004 at 12:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Popular Science
Bmused55,
Who says, it might be Boeing??? :confused:
It might be Airbus-Asia Joint-venture!!! ;) :D
Popular Science Magazine Predictions
2006 Four-to-six-passenger air taxis (Moore)
2007 Jumbo airbus A380 bought as private jet (Brown)
2008 Fuel-cell auxiliary power unit on civil aircraft (Benzakein)
2009 Sub-$100/LB. launches to leo (rutan)
2009 Privately operated orbital spaceships (Rutan)
2012 Transoceanic flights of UAVs (MacCready)
2012 1,000-passenger-plus stretch A380 (Brown)
2013 First regular commercial suborbital flight (Diamandis)
2015 Gravity shielding permits low-cost space access (Diamandis)
2015 Civilian non-helicopter vtol aircraft (Rutan)
2017 Blended-wing-body passenger jet (Muellner)
2017 Sub-$100,000 personal aircraft (Rutan)
2018 Zero-emission ethanol fuels in aircraft (MacCready)
2020 Non-rocket-engine spaceflight (Diamandis)
2020 U.S. goes five years without a fatal accident involving airplane with more than 100 seats (Brown)
2020 Affordable orbital flights (Rutan)
2020 Fully operational SATS system (Moore)
2020 six-million-lb. payload wing-in-ground-effect aircraft (Muellner)
2022 Automatic landing in general-aviation aircraft (Moore)
2025 Private colony on lunar surface (Diamandis)
2026 Electric aircraft (Moore)
2028 Autonomous personal flying machines (Moore)
2030 Production of personal aircraft exceeds 250,000 units/year (Moore)
2033 Regular point-to-point suborbital flights (Diamandis)
2035 Widespread automated delivery of items by unmanned aircraft (MacCready)
2041 Robotic bird-like UAVs used by the military (MacCready)
Unfortunally the article is not more online. :( :mad:
The following pic's are from the mag " Popular Science ", November 2003 issue:
fightingirish
By: 14th December 2004 at 12:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-I said boeing because they were playing with the idea for a while and the pictures match a possible configuration they drew.
By: 14th December 2004 at 15:36 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-2018 Zero-emission ethanol fuels in aircraft (MacCready)
Excellent, alcohol powered aircraft! ;) :D
By: 14th December 2004 at 16:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It'll look great in the dark!!!! :eek:
By: 14th December 2004 at 17:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
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2012 1,000-passenger-plus stretch A380 (Brown)
fightingirish
Isn't the A380 going to be big enough? Its almost twice the size in capacity so would that mean twice the aircraft size???
By: 15th December 2004 at 08:53 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-is that thing for real or just another CG blended into the environment???
if its for real , the Blended wing, then it just bluntly porves that Boeing's Blended wing actually moved from CG to two actual prototypes, and they actually thought it wud be the next biggest things to happen but for the other plan from the other side of the atlantic with the A380 .....
By: 15th December 2004 at 09:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Blackcat, if it was real wouldnt Boeing be shouting about how amazing they were etc?
By: 15th December 2004 at 09:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-is that thing for real or just another CG blended into the environment???if its for real , the Blended wing, then it just bluntly porves that Boeing's Blended wing actually moved from CG to two actual prototypes, and they actually thought it wud be the next biggest things to happen but for the other plan from the other side of the atlantic with the A380 .....
it's CG ;)
By: 15th December 2004 at 09:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Blackcat, if it was real wouldnt Boeing be shouting about how amazing they were etc?
No, they would report its TRUE perfomance figures and range and not make wildy inflated claims... ala Airbus :diablo:
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By: Bmused55 - 14th December 2004 at 12:08
...in secret! LOL
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