Since I was stuck at Chicago ’s O’Hare Airport all Clarence Day , here ’s an clause from the December 1 , 1967 European edition of Stars and Stripes , which describes the airport of the future .
An designer says he has an answer to the complaint that the foresighted and hardest part of a trip often is set about from household to the aerodrome .
Martin Schaffer , chairman of the board of an plane architectural firm , envisions “ containerize ” passengers transported from near their household to the plane and then to their destinations without leave the seat in which they start up .
Schaffer , who served as project coordinator on construction of O’Hare International Airport in Chicago , says young aerodrome facilities will be obsolete before they leave the draught table unless some drastic changes are made .
“ Airlines already have enough equipment in the air and on lodge to inundate every airport in the country by 1970 , ” he said .
“ have through traffic to the airport , and the handling of passengers and their luggage becomes more of a problem day by day , ” Schaffer order , “ but with plan for 500 and 750 - passenger planing machine to go into service in the next few years our airdrome will become chaotic . ”
Schaffer emphasized that self-aggrandizing airdrome with more buildings are not the answer .
Shaffer ’s airport of the future has no big last building but consists mainly of runway for jets and circular landing launch area for upright burlesque plane . These woodworking plane are in the conception stage , Shaffer said , and resemble helicopter except that they go faster and are propelled by rotate engines instead of blade .
Shaffer pronounce long , weary campaign to the airport follow by parking problem , longsighted ticket lines , luggage check - in lines and then the retentive paseo to the boarding area would be get rid of by his new transport system .
Shaffer foresees passengers with their luggage embarkation a “ seedcase ” from cumulate degree in the sphere service by the aerodrome , Shaffer excuse that the seedcase would be car - similar compartment running on monorail through tunnel like an hole-and-corner arrangement or on an airwave cushion .
Several pod , carrying about 75 passenger each , would be schedule for a specific flying , Shaffer said , and after picking up the passengers at designated stops , would go right away to the landing field .
Instead of seats for passengers , planes would lie of a big frame in which the pods would be inserted , the mode luggage compartment are insterted into a frame now , Shaffer say .
The pods could be detached from the melodic phrase frame upon landing place and could carry the rider to different points at their address , he said .
“ We ’ve get the technology to work up this case of system within the next 15 long time , ” Shaffer said .
See also : Commuter Helicopter ( 1947 )
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