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Commercial supersonic flight has been done before with the Concorde and the Tu-144. While it might not be as big a money maker as standard commercial flights, I
by 10000truths 4y ago
Commercial supersonic flight has been done before with the Concorde and the Tu-144. While it might not be as big a money maker as standard commercial flights, I’m sure there are people willing to shell out big bucks to reduce their 15-hour flight to 3 hours.
- tedunangst 4y agoNobody is building passenger jets that go Mach 5.
- 10000truths 4y agoYeah, the numbers I wrote are rather exaggerated. But even just the Mach 2 that the Concorde could achieve would halve long-distance travel times.
- bobthepanda 4y agoBecause of the fuel burn, they also don’t go that far. Military supersonic planes regularly do aerial refueling to make up for it. At the kind of range that Concorde and the Tu-144 operated at, you can either spend three hours in a plush but narrow seat, or you can leave at night in a lie-flat business seat and wake up refreshed after a 6-8 hour sleep.
- pcurve 4y agoYep. With travel time to and from the airport the savings isn’t compelling