These are not facts. You pulled this straight out of the air. I have absolutely no problem reading neat cursive riding. For me I can write at least 2x as fast in script and I experience less hand fatigue while writing it because I am not always moving my hand up and down for every letter. Also I am exactly 26 years old. I use it mainly to write in a personal journal which I choose not to type out. Just because you are bad at it doesn't mean that its a completely useless skill.

Yes but someone who is trying to reach the 10 year old demographic with advertising might be interested in this. From what I understand from my friends on Madison Avenue, it is quite lucrative to convince a 10 - 15 year old to nag his parents into buying something.

There is no way they can really afford to keep a small jet airplane in the air just circling for hours... That is thousands of dollars a day worth of fuel.