There is a certain quality of the graphic design, colors, typography, and layout of the "vintage" planning & marketing materials shown here that I just can't put my finger on why I like it so much. Perhaps a certain richness from the inks that were available and the type of tools used to produce it.<p>Whatever it is, it feels authentic and hopeful. I love the sense of optimism that the graphics (and history shared in this article) invokes. Great stuff.
This page has great content, but some Javascript or CSS stupidity that prevents text selection. Anyone have a good fix to reenable that?<p>I use the text selection highlight as I read just to keep my place when scrolling around to look at the images.<p>Browser makers need to come up with a "Disable user-hostile features" toggle that gets rid of this and form related BS like the inability to paste passwords.
i accidentally clicked on the image and it said download is not allowed. So I went to web tools and downloaded the image anyway. I don't even want that image but I hate that feature.
What a fascinating article. It is interesting to see how people in the 60s and 70s imagined the future of flying: fast supersonic planes flying between continents. We have gone in a completely different direction with "slow" and cheap air travel.<p>PS: Only on H.N would you find a majority of comments referring to the website CSS/JS and technical glitches when the content is of such quality.
Ah! What could have been. Failure of developing (quiet) super-sonic and hyper-sonic civilian aircraft is one of the great shortcomings of our age. The Boom (shockwave) has given way to The Zoom (video teleconferencing)<p>An interesting point of the "future architecture" speculations is that they never anticipated algorithmically-aided parametric designs in the manner of Zaha Hadid ;)<p><a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/26/zaha-hadid-architects-starfish-beijing-daxing-international-airport/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/26/zaha-hadid-architects-star...</a>