Future of aviation - fact or fiction

If you selected those quotes because they seemed the most amusing or
'far-fetched', then they're actually impressively close to reality. It
seems to me the only really 'wrong' thing in his vision is the idea that
the new technology will free us from the constraints of weather. The
majority of flight delays today are still due to weather.

I like the part about the data being beamed back to the ground for
cross-check. I've often wondered why we still use flight data recorders,
with short (30min) recording capacity, when the data could be compiled
every minute or so, compressed and sent in packets to a ground station,
where it would be easily recoverable.

GF