Daily Memo: Airborne Cruise Ships—On Solid Ground Or Flight Of Fancy?
The semi-buoyant, wing-in-ground-effect EAGLE would dwarf today's largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's 1,200-ft.-long Icon of the Seas.
Credit: RIC Enterprises
Flying boats are viewed through the misted lens of nostalgia as a bygone era of aviation. Airships too. Flying dock to dock across oceans in days versus the weeks it took by steamship was a phenomenon of the 1920s and ’30s, far removed from the fast-paced 2020s. But are the airlines missing a trick...
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