Looked up flights and trains from Portland to Seattle on a random weekday a couple months from now.
Trains: 7. 6 cascades (~3.5 hour duration), 1 coast starlight (~4 hour duration).
Flights: 20+. At least 1 an hour on Alaskan alone. Flight duration: 1 hour.
Ugh, we need faster, more frequent trains. These cities are ~150 miles between the stations. That’s basically the sweet spot for fast, frequent trains to dominate travel. The fact that Amtrak is running 7 daily trains between these 2 cities already shows that demand exists.
Hello Friends & soon-to-be Friends! New instance, new #introduction!
I’m a software engineer and electric airplane manufacturer. And I guess creator now that I’ve started publishing videos about my airplane build.
I post almost entirely about aviation, Apple technologies (swift and the like), and a little bit about ebikes and other topics.
I’m an instrument-rated private pilot, most of my hours so far have been in a Cessna 172
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I’m building an electric Cozy (the "Coz-E"). The Cozy is a single-engine, propeller-driven canard airplane, derived from the Rutan VariEze and Long-EZ. See image, from the cover of the Cozy plans.
Canard means that it looks like a backwards airplane. The small wing (horizontal stabilizer) is up front. This allows for very efficient cruise flight with very favorable stall characteristics.
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Hello Friends & soon-to-be Friends! New instance, new #introduction!
I’m a software engineer and electric airplane manufacturer. And I guess creator now that I’ve started publishing videos about my airplane build.
I post almost entirely about aviation, Apple technologies (swift and the like), and a little bit about ebikes and other topics.
I’m an instrument-rated private pilot, most of my hours so far have been in a Cessna 172
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Rachel Brindle