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1. You Have to Have Know Where and How Far You Are Going

2. A Clear Voice Speaking of the Future
“.... rich air traffic demanding even greater speed will call
forth the ultimate form of transatlantic air transport, flying
wings burning up the high altitude air at 300 m.p.h. with
one-stop flights on the Great Circle Route of 3.544 miles
between the world’s two greatest centers of economic and
political activity. Up above the weather they will fly, to be
guided by super-accurate radio beacons, radio-altimeters,
and automatic stability devices…. Multiple Diesel engines
will keep them flying in their own element, the air and
long thereafter, unfailing electric motors energized by
radio power will propel them to their goals non-stop.”
“Trans-Atlantic Service”
J.S. McDonnell, V-P Air Transport Engineering
Glenn L. Martin Company
Airway Age Feb.- June 1931

3. A Noted Journalist Speaks
….“Two notions about aviation for the future you may be
prepared to discard – the stratosphere flight for passenger
traffic and the 500 miles-per-hour flight. A bored rewrite
man dishes up quotes from some crackpot scientist to go
with the picture visualizing flights to Europe in five hours
or less, excursions into the stratosphere, dazzling speed,
most of it 18 Caret baloney. A cruising speed of 200
miles-per-hour is sufficient. Any faster is impractical…..”
“Planes Leaving for Shanghi-Paris”
Paul Gallico
August 1935

4. An Expert Committee Speaks
Von Ohaim and Whittle already had flight weight engines running
For several years, and both GTE prototypes had flown

5. A voice in the darkness
Challenging the future is viewed by each observer
differently. Although the National Aerospace
Plane (NASP) is recent vintage, the diversity of
views is not.
Hershel Sams, Vice President-General Manager, McDonnell Douglas
“NASP: Railroad to the Future”
SPACE WORLD, May 1988
Ray Sprangenburg & Dianne Moser
They were correct!

6. Expendable
Vehicles
Conestoga Wagons
and
ELV’s and RLV’s
Sustained Use
Vehicles.
Trains
and
NASP-like
Vehicles

7. Expendable
Vehicles
Conestoga Wagons
and
ELV’s and RLV’s
Sustained Use
Vehicles.
Trains
and
NASP-like
Vehicles