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Breaking the airliner paradigm

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Yus! A nice ringing phrase, and an inspiration to verse: We are all bored with rockets and microchips, No more do gasps of wonder pass our lips, but a ticket for a zeppelin, would make anyone start yodellin', "everything's more stylish with airships"! Trans-pacific ekranoplans are a grand notion, too, but I think hypersonic airliners are just Dan-Dare 50s-style hokum now. There isn't enough fossil fuel left to allow that kind of showing-off.

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29 Jun 2012

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2:25 pm

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