9781586480400

Free Flight

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9781586480400

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Overview

Ask someone who has recently flown commercially about their experience and you'll hear a common complaint: "We spent almost as much time waiting as we did flying". The airline system has reached a nightmarish state due to a combination of economics and technology. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by filling all the seats and funneling traffic through a hub-and-spoke routing system. Virtually all of the technological innovation in airplanes in the last thirty years has been devoted to moving passengers more cheaply, and more safely, between major hubs. Each generation of new planes has been more reliable, and has carried more passengers on less fuel, than before. But what was left out of this equation was, of course, the comfort, convenience, and flexibility of the average traveler.

A technological answer to this logjam is underway at the moment. Free Flight will tell the story of three groups who are inventing and building thefuture of all air travel. There's a NASA administrator who long ago anticipated airline gridlock and began agitating for another system; there are the two brothers who created the first genuinely new small airplane in more than twenty-five years; and there is Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, which uses technologies first applied on cruise missiles to develop "cheap" jet planes for "air taxi" services that take you exactly where you want to go, when you want to go there. This book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the airlines, airplanes, or American business.


ISBN-13

9781586480400

ISBN-10

1586480405

Weight

1.27 Pounds

Dimensions

6.25 x 1.00 x 9.75 In

List Price

$25.00

Format

Hardcover

Pages

272 pages

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Published On

2001-05-31



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