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"and we could have vertol tugs to get you into altitude and then start you horizontal. I want you to understand that that is a very practical art and it will come.
"So then we are going to have all those container ships going by air-- particularly as we cut down on the weights of materials. I first began to talk about freight by air in the mid-1930’s when we didn’t have any transoceanic yet-- flying boats, yes, but there was no land for landings… You first got freight by air with the Ford tri-motors moving mining gear into places you could never go before except by air. Well, I’m simply saying that we’re moving into the miniaturization of everything; we are going to get into the great containers and they are going to contain less weight goods and this is all going by air.
“With design science we can work out what we can do by water with the sea as a resource. The sea bottom could not be more important. You could not dock ships at sea, one with the other, due to the rolling of the sea. The great tonnage is in there, but the mass attraction would chew them to pieces. You have to always go to harbors; and there are not many harbors around the world so you have to go enormous distances to transfer your”
