From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jul 29 2000 - 18:21:04 MDT
GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
>
> <> Despite having suffered through a transatlantic flight more times than I
> can now count, I can't make myself believe that an SST with current
> technology makes sense. It seems to me that the disruption of one's schedule
> from crossing 6 or 8 time zones in 3 or 4 hours is just as great as doing it
> in 9 or 10 hours. Heck, just going back and forth between the US Middle and
> Left Coasts is enough to kill the better part of two whole days for me. With
> the ability to keep a laptop computer running throughout the usable portion
> of the transatlantic flight now, I've come to actually be able to make
> productive use of the trip if I want or need to.
>
Actually I've read many businesspeople coming from Europe take the Concorde
over (arriving in US around same time of day that they left), do their
biz here, and then grab a normal slower flight back to sleep on. In that
case I can see that it makes sense.
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