A passenger sits on a bench as a train arrives inside a metro station in the district of Levent, Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday, July 6, 2018. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's longest-serving ruler since the Republic was founded in 1923, won a five-year term on June 24, securing a mandate to rule with greater executive powers. He has already governed three times as prime minister and served one term as president. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
It sounds like something Q, the tech guy in James Bond movies, would create: A plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your local station.
That’s what a French entrepreneur, who’s made millions by connecting engineers with industrial groups, is pitching to Boeing Co and others. “Link & Fly” is Akka Technologies’s new flagship aircraft design, with wings that come off to hasten turnover at airports and make boarding easier and closer to passengers’ homes.
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