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Exclusive: Inside Company Making Ultrafast Planes

[hmdrake]

"curvature of Earth..." oh no. Flat Earthers will be TRIGGERED.

[iLoveBoysandBerries]

That name will come back to haunt them one day

[birdman]

I can see John Travolta on those wings

[joesbhose]

"I'm on a plane with cocaine." - Buckcherry

[lighttheoryllc]

Hopefully their CFO doesn't let their Budget go BUST! and hopefully their engineers won't let the planes go BOOM! in the mid air.

[gglen]

Here we go, talking about supersonic flights across America, again. The sonic BOOM !!! It may be quieter than the concorde, but it will still scare the bejeezus out of animals. I remember as a kid, my Gran lived on an island on the flight path of the concorde out of the UK. (Arran) The shockwave would knock things off shelves in her kitchen from +30, 000 feet.

[kulik]

Who the heck pays 7000 for a flight ticket except for very wealthy CEOs?

[lighttheoryllc]

They forgot to mention SINGAPORE as the new Billionaire HOTSPOT

[steveszawrowski]

Starlight, would be the appropriate name for this magnificent super passenger plane, from a sci-fi point of view! But where can you make a boom boom, a plane for kids

[PurserArts]

Would love to see that huge windows that you won't even be able to touch due to the friction a high speed

[calvinkong]

Private jet could be very potential on these plane

[DirtIsFree]

2029 at 7000 grand a ticket.
This story is way too early.

[johnreno]

prices is very high. price must not be more than 1 grand for longest trip. short trips must be arround 100-200. mid range trimps probebly erroundy 300-600. and long 700-1000 maximum.

[arlentraster]

5000 to 7000?! Yeah, really affordable!

[accutronitisthend]

Supersonic flight is not allowed around cities in the USA so they couldn't take a direct path though that's not that big of a deal at supersonic speeds...

[Saturn_Enslaved]

Cool. Rich people have another way to get around.

[lawrup]

If this isn't related to conconrd edu I'm not going to my funeral

[colbykinney]

They are named after an explosion.💥....I'll pass

[djpomare]

Supersonic sounds good BUT "The eyes of history are on this appointment." - Buttigeig
1964 Japan's first bullet trains were put in service and the the first Beatles album was released.
1998 China started the construction of 36, 000km of high speed railways and high speed trains.
2021 US still has NO high speed railway and NO high speed trains. When was America great?

[tonywilson]

Why can't any of these idiotic journalists do some basic fact checking.
What really hurt Concorde wasn't the technology or noise or costs - it was 9/11.
*This was all made clear on a documentary that a group of the pilots help make.*

*FIRST* Concorde made money, in fact for most of its life it was British Airways most profitable division. After losing buckets at first British Airways were going to cancel the entire program and the pilots challenged management that they had the ticketing wrong because the planes were MOSTLY FULL.

Management challenged the pilots to run it better which they then did for more than 25 years (and profitably). The first thing they did was one of the great exercises in market research. they found they had a group of lawyers and bankers using Concorde several times a week. Those people flew across the Atlantic for sensitive document and contract signings. So they changed the ticket price to what that group believed a Concorde ticket was worth. The original pricing was based on standard subsonic flights. The tickets they were initially selling were grossly under valued.

The main users of Concorde were business people for who time was very serious money. The cost of jumping on Concorde flying across the Atlantic for a quick meeting and then flying back were worth it for the type of business those people did.

*SECOND* what really hurt Concorde was that over 50 of its top 100 users died in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

*THIRD* what killed of Concorde wasn't the accident but Airbus who owned all the technology rights refusing to maintain Concorde so they could sell more of the normal aircraft. Don't ask for the logic on that.

*FOURTH* Concorde was *NEVER* outdated because nothing else came along that was better at doing what it did AND STILL HASN'T.