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Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 02:56:32 No.1888292 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1888332 >>1888341 >>1888733

Why did personal air travel never take off as a legitimate form of transportation the way the personal automobile did?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 03:06:48 No.1888295 Report

Quoted By: >>1888297

Cost and skill

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 03:11:19 No.1888297 Report

Quoted By: >>1888299 >>1888300 >>1888685 >>1888687

>>1888295
A Cessna 172 cost $9000 in 1955, whereas the average car was $3000, so it wasn't that much more expensive. The ridiculously expensive prices of GA aircraft is a recent thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 03:15:12 No.1888299 Report

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>>1888297
$9 grand could get you a house in those days, it was always a pursuit for people with higher incomes, and that explains why it was niche then and today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 03:17:29 No.1888300 Report

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>>1888297
Yeah but flying a plane is a huge event compared to just turning your car on and driving. The cost of storage, fuel and maintenance of a plane is really just too high to be justified as practical transport.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 04:20:07 No.1888316 Report

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Because the actual cost of fuel for the take off is unreasonable. Just the taking off but is super inefficient, and that’s why. +airstips have to be well maintained. Expensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 04:26:09 No.1888317 Report

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its expensive

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 05:38:15 No.1888332 Report

Quoted By: >>1888360

>>1888292
Because they go from airport to airport and not from my house to my destination.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 06:32:29 No.1888341 Report

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>>1888292
Learn how airplanes work. There's your answer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 07:47:03 No.1888360 Report

Quoted By: >>1888878

>>1888332
Ironically enough, you could probably use some streets in suburban areas as landing strips. Would only spell disaster for everyone involved with drunk pilots crashing planes into homes, but I'm sure that's just a minor detail.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 11:48:48 No.1888685 Report

Quoted By: >>1888814

>>1888297
>wasnt that much more expensive
>three times as much
???

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 11:59:13 No.1888687 Report

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>>1888297
Most people only owned like 3 sets of clothing back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 16:20:29 No.1888733 Report

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>>1888292
Mostly cost. Fuel is more expensive too. Lots of maintenence. Pilot license is expensive. Plus they already had to drive to the airport and then somehow get access to a car once at destination. Also you are more at the mercy of weather conditions

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 22:04:37 No.1888814 Report

Quoted By: >>1888883

>>1888685
That's still far less of a difference than today.
Median price of a new car is about $45k, vs a new Cessna 172 costing $430k.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 06:42:37 No.1888878 Report

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>>1888360
>tfw you will never have the extreme satisfaction of landing your commutercar on your street, skirting regs, after downing a fucking handle of liquor on a daydrinking trip with the boys in the local area flying around
Almost feels goodman.
>-t. walks to the local bar and doesn't fly drunk, but thinks this is a hilarious idea everybody should do

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 07:20:04 No.1888883 Report

Quoted By: >>1888900

>>1888814
not one from the 60s

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 07:41:18 No.1888887 Report

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Personal aircrafts are hideously accident prone.
Takeoff fuel.
Cost for the plane is extreme.
Pilot license is hard to get.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 09:16:24 No.1888900 Report

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>>1888883
Sure and you can get a Geo Metro for under four figures, that wasn't the point of comparison.

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