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by spyspy 3720 days ago
As far as I was aware, plane development has pretty much plateaued as engineers have eked ever diminishing returns from materials and aerospace engineering. Commercial airliners today don't look much different than planes manufactured in the 70s. Supersonic airliners are the next logical step, but they aren't anywhere near the author's dreams laid out at the beginning.