Space shuttle airplane by 2020?

Unless you’re in first class, business, or were born with wings – flying sucks. Even if you try to forget the obstacle course that is everything between check in and TSA to reaching your terminal and then wading through human carry-on luggage racks lining a smelly, crowded aisle of too-close seats, you still have to endure the actual flight. It’s cramped. The air’s recycled. The food has poop bugs in.. Read More

Windowless surround-screen plane?

Would you ride in a windowless plane? I don’t mean some blind metal tampon rocketing through the sky so that cloud-god has to wonder if we’re having a party in there or dead like Schrodinger’s cat. I mean one with screens of live images blanketing the entire interior of the plane – showing what’s happening outside instead of actual windows. Because that’s what’s coming in the next ten years, apparently… Read More