{"id":146858,"date":"2018-07-18T18:52:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T01:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/?p=146858"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T01:52:37","slug":"akka-pod-with-detachable-wings-would-integrate-aviation-with-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/akka-pod-with-detachable-wings-would-integrate-aviation-with-public-transit.html","title":{"rendered":"Akka pod with detachable wings would integrate aviation with public transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.akka-technologies.com\/en\">Akka Technologies is developing pods with detachable wings that would integrate aviation and public transit.<\/A> The AKKA Group is an engineering and technology consulting company with 16000 employees.<\/p><div class=\"nextb-last-paragraph\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"nextb-15291355\">\r\n<div data-aaad='true' data-aa-adunit='\/339474670\/Nextbigfuture_A\/InContent_3'><\/div>\r\n<div data-onpage='true' data-adpath='\/339474670,3911572\/Nextbigfuture_B\/InContent_3'><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The detachable wings would make for vastly more efficient boarding and improve the utilization of the engines and wings.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/42A6WnmavYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/technology\/2018\/07\/11\/flying-trains-france-s-akka-technologies-makes-pitch-to-boeing\">You go to a local train station and board the train-like tube.<\/A> This pod takes you straight to the airport. The pod then moves onto the runway where a cockpit and wings are attached to the passenger train before taking off. Upon landing, the fuselage detaches from the wings and rolls out of the airport to local train stations to drop you at a convenient location.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.28.03-PM-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1054\" height=\"490\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.28.03-PM-min.png 1054w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.28.03-PM-min-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.28.03-PM-min-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.28.03-PM-min-1024x476.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1054px) 100vw, 1054px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.51-PM-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1220\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.51-PM-min.png 1220w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.51-PM-min-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.51-PM-min-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.51-PM-min-1024x346.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.01-PM-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"446\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.01-PM-min.png 938w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.01-PM-min-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.01-PM-min-768x365.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.37-PM-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-146863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.37-PM-min.png 1170w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.37-PM-min-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.37-PM-min-768x255.png 768w, https:\/\/nextbigfuture.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-18-at-6.27.37-PM-min-1024x340.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akka Technologies is developing pods with detachable wings that would integrate aviation and public transit. The AKKA Group is an engineering and technology consulting company with 16000 employees. The detachable wings would make for vastly more efficient boarding and improve the utilization of the engines and wings. You go to a local train station and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Akka pod with detachable wings would integrate aviation with public transit\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/akka-pod-with-detachable-wings-would-integrate-aviation-with-public-transit.html#more-146858\" aria-label=\"More on Akka pod with detachable wings would integrate aviation with public transit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1307,1308],"tags":[84,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}