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Boeing Boasts Developing A Hypersonic Passenger Jet


The just-announced claim is that when it goes into regular service in about a dozen years, the Boeing airliner will fly non-stop between New York and London in two hours, and Los Angeles and Tokyo in three hours.

Of course, that won’t speed up the extra hours passengers must spend on the ground before flights. They include weather delays, driving to the airport, parking, long waiting lines and surviving touchie-feelie security body checks.
Big Deal! Southwest Now Shows Free Movies In Flight PDF Print E-mail


How many flying seniors remember 30 or so years back when movies were projected on small screens up front of the passenger cabin? You could hear the sound track on the earphones plugged into your seat, but could only squint at the teeny images way, way up there. Not much different than little screens on 1950s television sets.

Now, as with some competing airlines, SW has ended the $5 charge for watching in-flight movies on seat back screens. The programs can always be prerecorded at home and seen on personal devices, such as smartphones. Also, SW passengers can now watch live TV broadcasts and some first-time entertainment videos on seat back screens.
 
 
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