We looked at the historical attempts that had been out there and realized that, despite the fact that we have a lot of modern innovations to draw on today that weren't available previously — we have modern composite materials, we have aircraft engines that get good fuel economy and have better power-to-rate ratios than have ever been available, we have glass cockpit avionics that bring the information you need to fly directly to you in the cockpit — but without fundamentally addressing the problem from a different perspective, we realized that we were going to be getting the same result that people had been getting for the last hundred years, which isn't where we want to be right now.
Hemos revisado los intentos históricos que se han producido y nos dimos cuenta que, aunque tenemos muchas innovaciones modernas, para hablar de las actuales que no estaban disponibles antes; tenemos modernos materiales compuestos, motores de aviación económicos en combustible y relaciones de potencia-eficiencia mejores que nunca. Tenemos cabinas de cristal con toda la información necesaria para volar en el tablero frente al piloto. Pero si no se aborda el problema desde una perspectiva diferente, vamos a seguir obteniendo los mismos resultados de los últimos 100 años, que no es donde queremos estar ahora.