Free Flight

Free Flight
Author: James Fallows
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-11-05
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0786741759

Download Free Flight Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airlines have survived by keeping planes full and funneling traffic through a centralized 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 efficiently between major hubs. But what was left out of this equation was the convenience and flexibility of the average traveler. Now, because of heightened security, hours of waiting are tacked onto each trip. As James Fallows vividly explains, a technological revolution is under way that will relieve this problem. Free Flight features the stories of three groups who are inventing and building the future of all air travel: NASA, Cirrus Design in Duluth, Minnesota, and Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These ventures should make it possible for more people to travel the way corporate executives have for years: in small jet planes, from the airport that's closest to their home or office directly to the airport closest to where they really want to go. This will be possible because of a product now missing from the vast array of flying devices: small, radically inexpensive jet planes, as different from airliners as personal computers are from mainframes. And, as Fallows explains in a new preface, a system that avoids the congestion of the overloaded hub system will offer advantages in speed, convenience, and especially security in the new environment of air travel.


Free Flight
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: James Fallows
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-05 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

GET EBOOK

The troubles of the airline system have become acute in the post-terrorist era. As the average cost of a flight has come down in the last twenty years, the airl
Theory of Flight
Language: en
Pages: 680
Authors: Richard von Mises
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-27 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

GET EBOOK

Mises' classic avoids the formidable mathematical structure of fluid dynamics, while conveying — by often unorthodox methods — a full understanding of the p
Flight
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Christopher C. Kraft
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Dutton Adult

GET EBOOK

This book is the account of Chri Kraft and the U.S. space program from its infancy to its greatest triumphs.
Return Flight
Language: en
Pages: 79
Authors: Jennifer Huang
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-18 - Publisher: Milkweed Editions

GET EBOOK

Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, w
Fantastic Flight
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: John M. Collins
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Provides instructions for creating twenty-five paper airplanes using single sheets of paper.