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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by icebraining on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:24PM (#12790866)
Let's assume that the collection location needs to be at least twice the wingspan of the plane.

Why? But in any case, you could have a fast conveyor belt directly from the plane to the location, no need to carry them by hand.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by ghaff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:47PM (#12791062)
Meanwhile in the real world you have the automated baggage system that they attempted to install in Denver.

http://calleam.com/WTPF/?page_id=2086

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