Watch: Why Does It Still Take 5 Hours To Fly Cross-Country?
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In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy pledged that Americans would go to the moon and develop a supersonic commercial airliner. By the end of that decade, the country witnessed in awe Neil Armstrong鈥檚 鈥渟mall step for man…鈥 It was the idea of supersonic intercity travel that proved the unattainable 鈥渕oonshot.鈥 A half-century after Kennedy鈥檚 promise, with the European Concorde in retirement and no American supersonic plane ever cleared for takeoff, airliners still travel at the same speed as did President Kennedy鈥檚 707 Air Force One.
We like to talk about the dizzying rate of technological change these days, but when it comes to intercity travel, we鈥檙e stuck back in 1959, when the 707 made its inaugural trans-continental flight. Why is that? And are we now on the eve of startling innovations in flying, or will it still take five hours to fly across the country in 2059? Join Future Tense for lunch in Washington, DC on听Wednesday, May 11听to discuss these questions, and the future of aviation.听
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听础驳别苍诲补:
12:00 pm: Living Large and Flying High in the Jet Age, Circa 1959听
Andr茅s Martinez听
Editorial Director, Future Tense听
12:10 pm: What a Drag that Supersonic Boom: The Impediments to Supersonic Flight for the Rest of Us听
Dr. Dava Newman 听
Deputy Administrator, NASA听听听
Dr. Greg Zacharias听
Chief Scientist of the US Air Force听
12:40 pm: I鈥檒l Sell You a Futuristic Plane, If You鈥檙e Willing to Pay for It听
笔谤别蝉别苍迟补迟颈辞苍:听
Richard Aboulafia听
Vice President, Analysis, Teal Group Corporation听
颁辞苍惫别谤蝉补迟颈辞苍:听
David Lackner听
Vice President, Head of Research and Technology for North America, Airbus Group Innovations听
Dr. Leik Myrabo听
Founder, Lightcraft Technologies, Inc.听
Blake Scholl听
Founder and CEO, Boom Technology, Inc.
1:40 pm: Cleared for Takeoff? Our Strained Aviation System鈥檚 Capacity and Design听
Dr. Diana Pfeil
CTO, Resilient Ops, Inc.听
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Justin Powell
Associate Principal, Arup Group听
Michelle Schwartz听
Chief of Staff, Federal Aviation Administration听
2:30 pm: Parting Thoughts: Air Travel, Circa 2059听
James Fallows
Moderator:
James Fallows
National correspondent,听The Atlantic
Author,听China Airborne听
Author,听Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel
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