Tuesday, March 21, 2023

airplanes vs trains, 1929

 Flying magazine July 1929, https://books.google.com/books?id=H0TpzoIY71wC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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  1. Seems like it would be the other way around. With the red being railroad travel in a given time frame and the gray being the distance of air travel in the same time.

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    1. maybe you're misinterpreting the red, which is a USA at one third scale of the gray, indicating the planes thake and accomplish the same travel on one third the time, also shows how the map is shrinking with a relative time between airplane travel time to reach the destinations to how long it takes a train. Shrinking

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