Originally Posted by
Rawhide51
We've been flying the Global Hawk for about 20 years, and that thing has a wingspan larger than the 737. How long before they start moving cargo like that? Unless you're 80 years old, I'm thinking in your lifetime, you will see freight dogs replaced, driverless/augmented cars, and some form of automated airborne personal transport in the next 25 years, if not sooner.
Do you have any idea how many people/man hours it takes to put (and keep) a GH in the air? It’s a LOT. Like, orders of magnitude more than say a 737. They also operate from dedicated facilities, at very low volume. Flying turns out of ORD? Ha!!! (And that’s after 20 years of maturity NOT flying for profit).
The day you can build a 100% secure, hack proof, cost effective wireless network, we can have this discussion. Until then…