| Ever hear someone complain about a recent flight on an airliner? There wasnât enough legroom to stretch out, the food (if there was any) was only so-so, the movie selection could have been better, it wasnât easy falling asleep tilted back only slightly in that seat. What people donât much complain about is the aircraft itself, which holds 300 people and their luggage, zooms along at 600 miles per hour for thousands of miles up at 35,000 feet, has a pressurized cabin with a comfortable climate, is remarkably quiet, and affords a fairly smooth ride, even in rough weather. The reason we find ourselves preoccupied with airborne beverage options and not the air-sick bag is the fantastic success of systems engineering in designing aircraft, which now have thousands of requirements, from efficient, powerful engines to sophisticated electronics.
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