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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Forecasts '87 and beyond
Message-ID: <1596@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 87 18:13:49 GMT
References: <2234@dasys1.UUCP> <36846@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
Lines: 29
Keywords: from "The Futurist"

In article <36846@sun.uucp> fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>In article <2234@dasys1.UUCP>, patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes:
>> From "Outlook '87 and beyond" ...
>> 
>> *    An airplane in every garage may soon be possible.
>>      Lightweight materials such as plastics and aluminum
>>      can reduce the cost of manufacturing, making
>>      possible affordable, fuel-efficient "personal
>>      planes."    --WT&F/Technology, Jan/Feb '86
>
>This must be for a parallel timeline...not ours.

I also choked on this one, but for different reasons.  What got me was the
line about "Lightweight materials such as plastics and aluminum ... ".
Just what do these turkeys think airplanes are made of these days?  The
vast majority of production light aircraft are already made of aluminum
and plastic and have been since well before I got my licenses (pilot and
mechanic, both about 20 years ago).  This reads more like a prediction
from the '20s or '30s than the late '80s.

BTW, an airplane in every garage has been "possible" since airplanes were
invented.  It just isn't very likely, due mostly to economic and logistic
infeasibility.

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