And even before flights got generally cheaper, it's hard for most people to justify taking almost a week longer, between a very limited number of destinations, on a pretty limited schedule.
Really cool. When I was younger I regularly got one of those (Not sure of the name) bundles of pages that you tear out and arrange in binders. It was all about aircraft including cross sections and I've always wanted to scan and ocr them.
Yes, these things were huge in the 80s and early 90s. "Part works" is the official term for them. I'm trying to track down some of the ones I loved from my childhood too. I wonder how well some of them hold up?
> A lot of times something like this is how you form some new regulations - it's truly one of those "You know, this was excellent but we can't do it again" situations.
Reminds me of an England v Italy rugby match a few years back where Italy completely abused the offside rule that resulted in England, seemingly, wanting the rules changed after that match (though Eng still won).
Even if it works brilliantly in other places, you'll still have a big part of the US saying "it'll never work here, we're too different" etc. Same arguments as the metric system that's been great everywhere for such a long time.
>Same arguments as the metric system that's been great everywhere for such a long time.
The biggest argument against the metric system is that it would cost trillions to retool all factories etc. to metric.
Secondarily, countries like Canada and the UK aren't 100% metric and use a weird sort of Frankenstein system (i.e. Brits measuring body weight in "stone"). And if anything that's worse than one or the other
Don't think I have anything super premium, but am an organiser of the group