To be honest, I haven't traveled by air in 20 years. And it's not like some who stopped flying after 9/11 or others who can no longer deal with exorbitant wait times. The need just hasn't arisen.

And, honestly, the latter of those two reasons is more of a deterrent for me than the former.

But I could come up with a good excuse to fly if I could climb aboard Lockheed Martin's proposed new N+2 jet, which promises a trip from coast to coast that would come in under 3 hours.

Yes, I'm intensely curious about such a flight, but I also have concerns.

Any luggage that I stow? How flattened will it be if it's not REALLY secured? And I mean  RREEEEAAAALLLLY...

Will my ears or lips or even my rear end arrive a few minutes after I do?

Just how good ARE those seat belts?

Will the drink cart, more or less, be a thing of the past, out of obvious necessity?

With a Mach 1.7 design, we're talking speeds of just under 1300 miles per hour. Average passenger jet speed falls somewhere in the neighborhood of between 546 and 575 miles per hour. So, you know, YIKES!

Our pal Jordan said, "I'd be halfway scared."

Well, Jordan, I'd be all the way scared. But I'd still do it.

Then again, we're talking about another 10 years, according to Lockheed Martin, and the cost of those initial flights would likely be prohibitive.

But, a man can dream (at the speed of sound), can't he?

 

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