Why Planes Don’t Fly Any Faster Than They Did in the 1960s

(via mental_floss)  The airplane experience has changed a lot since the 1960s, when tickets could cost up to five times more than today’s prices, passengers could smoke on the plane and have as much booze as they could drink. But one aspect of air travel hasn’t changed much over the last few decades: how fast the plane goes. We’re still flying at the same speeds we did back before man had made it to the moon.