[shove_it]

Why didn't I think of that?

[shove_it]

Ful title= “Flying trains for real? This French entrepreneur proposes maverick flagship design to Boeing”

[Paladin2]

It’s a container.

Fortunately the wings don’t really come off. And that’s a good thing.

[RayChuang88]

Remember the Fairchild XC-120 Packplane project of the early 1950's? Well, this idea could actually work for specialized cargo transport.

[ClearCase_guy]

It sounds like something Q, the tech guy in James Bond movies, would create

Although I haven't seen the blueprints for this flying train, I will say that I trust the plan.

[bigbob]

Lost me at the wings coming off part

[Zeppo]

"Link & Fly" is Akka Technologies’s new flagship aircraft design, with wings that come off...

That's not the aspect that I would want to highlight in my marketing material, unless accompanied by reassuring words about how that can not occur during flight.

(New pilot-in-training on first flight: "What happens if I push this big red button now?")

[fishtank]

[Magnum44]

[Magnum44]

[kosciusko51]

I would be worried about accidental deployment of the cargo while in flight...

[SkyDancer]

Well there is Air-bus.