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which had its first test flight in 1949, and was fully introduced in 1952, as the first commercial jet. It's the exact same technology as we have in the year 2025, 73 years after. In the meantime, computing power has increased 10,887,500,000,000 times (1952 IBM 701 at 16,000 flops vs 1742 petaFlops/1,742,000,000,000,000 flops).
Granted, the safety and fuel economy has been improved, but overall, the propulsion technology is exactly the same.
Makes you wonder, eh?
Granted, the safety and fuel economy has been improved, but overall, the propulsion technology is exactly the same.
Makes you wonder, eh?
