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.

Popularescience.com

[edit] unmanned aircraft

• "Robotic Covert Surveillance Insect Takes Off for the First Time" July 20th, 2007

[edit] Misc flying projects

Other futuristic flying craft: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=707

1. Very light jets (microjects)
2. Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST)
3. Hypersonic airliners
4. Manned Cloud (and other dirigibles)
5. Orbital spaceplanes