Wings for the future ?
Who can predict what " my" new fleet of aircraft will be doing in thirty years from now, all short haul and lightly loaded, or what ?
I flew some of the Silver Wing scheduled services between Manston and Le Touquet (20 minutes each way) AND on passenger charter flights to Idlewild and back in a Hermes 4a. Perhaps we ought to have changed our wings for each kind of flight ! (But only at our base !)
The Martin Mars flying boat military transports are still around as fire fighters, probably not considered when they were first thought about .
TL