Airplane

In the future, air transportation will be significantly faster and more efficient than today; by the year 2030, they will have a larger carrying capacity and advanced security methods, among other new technological innovations. Military planes will be able to take satellite information to attack with a 100% hit rate.

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BoeingX-48

SAX-40

Misc flying projects

Other futuristic flying craft: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=707

1. Very light jets (microjects)
2. Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST)
3. Hypersonic airliners
4. Manned Cloud (and other dirigibles)
5. Orbital spaceplanes
6. Airbus Concept Planes

Also see-

1. How Governments become Authoritarian.
2. Today's OTL types of economies, societies and regimes.
3. Car
4. Airplane
5. Anti-Air systems
6. Atomic warfare information notes.

This is a factual article as opposed to fiction or scenario. It describes the current state of the field and explains expected future developments without speculation or fantasy.