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I can't imagine a worse time to launch a new aircraft. The airlines are all bleeding hard due to Covid.
by mark-r 6y ago
I can't imagine a worse time to launch a new aircraft. The airlines are all bleeding hard due to Covid.
- scarier 6y agoThe nice thing is they still likely have a number of years before the full-scale passenger version goes into production. I doubt COVID will have a significant impact on their long-term success or failure.
- aero-glide 6y agoThe commercial version is expected to be operational at 2029
- oh_sigh 6y agoThe ultra rich are still traveling and many would probably love 3.5 hour trips across the Atlantic.
- sschueller 6y agoMaybe we shouldn't have any ultra rich. Most of them got there by exploiting others and fly so much that they pollute as much as a small town.
- aero-glide 6y agoWas bored so tried the math. Assume small town is 5000 people. 5000 * 20tons co2 (average US emissions per capita) = 100,000 tons of co2/year. Cessna Citation produces 6 tons for every 3 hour flight. Lets say, there are 3 people each flight. So 2 tons per person per flight. If someone takes the private jet _every day of the year_, thats 700 tons. Still a far cry from 100,000 tons from a small town.
- sschueller 6y agoMaybe a bit exaggerated but the super rich produce a lot of CO2 compared to an average person. People like Elon Musk have gulfstreams. Elon has a gulfstream G550 which outputs 9,432 lbs / 5 mT per hour. He traveled 150,000 miles in 2018.
- aero-glide 6y agoThat 150,000 miles is same as the emissions of 70 average Americans. And Elon isn't the only one to use that jet. Its used to shuttle his employees too. Aviation industry is responsible for 2.8% of global emissions, but it is portrayed as the villan. Btw, Boom Supersonic is looking into synthetic fuels to stay carbon neutral.