On 16 Nov 2005 20:59:44 -0800, "AJ" wrote in
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I missed this article when it first appeared.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Flyin...=949148&page=1


John J. Nance says:

Perhaps the greatest disappointment with the predictions of
yesterday, however, was the fact that the "everyman" aviation
system it envisioned was at least 75 years ahead of its time
because the automated technology required to keep a sky full of
citizen flyers from crashing into each other is still at least a
quarter-century away. In other words, the vision of millions of us
jumping into our airplanes and flying off with the ease and
freedom of driving somewhere was never valid, and for those who
plan and protect the nation's airspace, it's more of a nightmare
than a dream.


Hasn't he heard of Small Aircraft Transportation System technology?


http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstud..._for_Taxi.html


http://sats.larc.nasa.gov/main.html
The SATS Vision

The small aircraft transportation vision is a safe travel
alternative freeing people and products from transportation system
delays, by creating access to more communities in less time.

This technology is in operation today.

If an aviation journalist is unaware of the plan to revitalize
municipal airport usage, it's no wonder that city planners are blindly
closing the airports that SATS depends upon for success.