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If one were to start from scratch on designing a passenger jet, imagining away the constraints of current airport design, passenger safety rules, everything els
by remarkEon 2y ago
If one were to start from scratch on designing a passenger jet, imagining away the constraints of current airport design, passenger safety rules, everything else ... I do wonder what the planes would look like. Perhaps like B2s, with engines in the rear.
- nostrademons 2y agoBoom XB-1, which is funded by YCombinator: https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1 https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1 Note that they're targeting a very different market segment from most commercial aviation - they're going for supersonic overseas business travel at a premium price point. Hence, relaxing some constraints. Even then it's taken 10 years to go from seed funding to first flight, and they're still far away from a commercial flight.