On the Horizon: Innovations in Air Travel
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On the Horizon:Innovations inAir Travel
By Darrell Kindley
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Everyone who has everyone flown commercially knows that it can be a stressful experience.
You may get bored, sick, or just uncomfortable. The airline industry knows this, however, so
they're working on a series of innovations to improve air travel. Take a look!
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Virtual Reality (VR) on Planes
If you want to enjoy an immersive VRexperience during your flight, you're inluck: Skylights, a California-based air techcompany, has developed VR headsets that
passengers can rent in-flight.
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Heating/CoolingSeats
A number of airlinesare working onpersonalized,temperature-
controlled seats,which they expectshould appear onplanes as soon asthree to five years
from now.
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Supersonic Flights
Both Virgin Galactic andNASA are developing newprototypes for supersonicjets, which are safer and
address issues with the lastclass of supersoniccommercial aircraft!