Airplane
From Future
In the future, airplanes will be fuel efficient and carry more people. Airplanes will also eventually be controlled by artificial intelligence and will not be able to be taken over by terrorists. Despite advances in airplane technology, the airplane will eventually be rendered obsolete around the year 2030 by maglev trains which will be considerably faster.
Pilots are starting to refuse to fly airplanes because they are dangerous monstrosities that can be used by terrorists. Airlines are going out of business or merging because nobody wants to fly anymore. It is more worth it to spend the extra money and time to use the train, bus, or automobile instead. AI-controlled airplanes will not completely end the use of them by hijacking terrorists. There might be absolutely no airlines in the world by around 2025 to 2030 (the final airline to go bankrupt would be Canada's WestJet).
[edit] CHeese jumps
Wheel of fortunes ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
[edit] Misc flying projects
Other futuristic flying craft: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=707
- Very light jets (microjects)
- Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST)
- Hypersonic airliners
- Manned Cloud (and other dirigibles)
- Orbital spaceplanes
