starviking said:
It's a pity the kids now have nothing comparable to read.
It's a pity kids now have nothing comparable to
look forward to. In the 1970's, aerospace began to grind to a halt, though it might not have seemed like it just yet. Prior to that, the world saw fighters and jetliners and bombers and such cranking out on a regular and rapid basis. Today... hmmmph. The most recent US fighter is the F-35, the program for which began nearly 20 years ago. The next US fighter? Decades away. The next jetliner that *doesn't* look like a warmed-over 707? Probably not in many of our lifetimes.
With nothing actually coming, there's not much to illustrate, except for half-formed notions that pretty much everyone knows not only won't leave the drawing board,
they won't even get to the drawing board.