I love to travel in high speed trains and jet airliners but I don't
like them. They are dangerous and polluting devices and they imply a
lot of fuss when you try to board one. Worst of all, jet airliners
deposit water vapor at high altitude which contributes to the
greenhouse effect.
I much like the concept of the 1930 Handley Page 42 and 45 civil
aircrafts:
Modern versions can be build very cost-effectively and fly at 300 km/h
and low altitude. I imagine countries disseminated with little
airfields from which those aircraft would hop back and forth. My
favorite choice to power them would be vegetable oil harvested from
terrains around the airfields.
No civil passengers got killed during the service of the Handley Page
42 and 45 aircrafts. They were quite secure aircrafts. Also they didn't
need much runway length. Sometimes the pilot even didn't taxi to the
runway and took off directly from the parking array.
I don't know if a biplane structure would be sound for a today
passenger aircraft anyway it would have at least one advantage. It
allows the aircraft to make a controlled stall and make emergency
landings on very short open grounds. Landing on inhabited arrays that
way would make few damage.
I imagine those aircraft to carry few petrol and make frequent halts to
reload. Just like the Handley Pages did. I believe thanks to modern
technology the reload will not take more than a few minutes.
If intended to fly oversea, I suppose they should have flying boat
capabilities. Though I guess landing on open sea to reload would be
hazardous. For long travels above oceans I guess huge aircrafts would
be better, with a flying wing shape to be easy to build. There is no
need for top-notch electronics: these flying wings can have a
conventional tail for stability. The flying wing shape is only intended
to make a huge aircraft easily, with less structural stress problems.
