This might seem a pipe-dream at the moment, but imagine an aircraft that’s two football fields long. A kind of flying Queen Mary 2, if you like, where you can leisurely roam around as you fly to some far-flung destination. This perhaps far-fetched notion is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak, whose privately-funded California firm, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, expects to have a prototype completed by 2010. They’re claiming that they can do for cargo what the internet did for information. Now that’s some claim!
