Popular Science Magazine Predictions
2006 Four-to-six-passenger air taxis (Moore)
2007 Jumbo airbus A380 bought as private jet (Brown)
2008 Fuel-cell auxiliary power unit on civil aircraft (Benzakein)
2009 Sub-$100/LB. launches to leo (rutan)
2009 Privately operated orbital spaceships (Rutan)
2012 Transoceanic flights of UAVs (MacCready)
2012 1,000-passenger-plus stretch A380 (Brown)
2013 First regular commercial suborbital flight (Diamandis)
2015 Gravity shielding permits low-cost space access (Diamandis)
2015 Civilian non-helicopter vtol aircraft (Rutan)
2017 Blended-wing-body passenger jet (Muellner)
2017 Sub-$100,000 personal aircraft (Rutan)
2018 Zero-emission ethanol fuels in aircraft (MacCready)
2020 Non-rocket-engine spaceflight (Diamandis)
2020 U.S. goes five years without a fatal accident involving airplane with more than 100 seats (Brown)
2020 Affordable orbital flights (Rutan)
2020 Fully operational SATS system (Moore)
2020 six-million-lb. payload wing-in-ground-effect aircraft (Muellner)
2022 Automatic landing in general-aviation aircraft (Moore)
2025 Private colony on lunar surface (Diamandis)
2026 Electric aircraft (Moore)
2028 Autonomous personal flying machines (Moore)
2030 Production of personal aircraft exceeds 250,000 units/year (Moore)
2033 Regular point-to-point suborbital flights (Diamandis)
2035 Widespread automated delivery of items by unmanned aircraft (MacCready)
2041 Robotic bird-like UAVs used by the military (MacCready)
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