The Coming Air Age

Lovejoy writes "Sixty years ago in The Atlantic Monthly, Igor Sikorsky wrote The Coming Air Age. "Any of us who are alive ten years after this Second World War is won will see and use hundreds of short-run helicopter bus services." He goes on to write about personal helicopters which fit in large garages and that helicopters that are easier to drive than cars, etc.. So, will personal flight ever be viable? Do wildly wrong predictions like this give futurists pause? I think they should."

Comments

Ah, how quickly the young forget

[dnight]

Personal flight has been around since the sixties, you just had to eat some sugar cubes and flap your arms.

Ask Timothy Leary, he's still up there somewhere.

It's like my mother sais.

[guybarr]

We're lucky cows can't fly.