A world without airplanes

Coming Tuesday I need to fly to Montreal...
Two years ago an eruption of the same vulcano lasted 2 years...

In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea

Read more: BBC news Saturday 17 April 2010