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Maybe we’ll have commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes.
by melling 2y ago
Maybe we’ll have commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes.
- jonwachob91 2y agoWe've already had commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoYes but there are now adults who were born after the last flight…
- fragmede 2y agoThey can legally drink (in the US) but I don't know that we would all agree that they can be called adults quite yet.
- frankfrank13 2y agoRetired in '03, seems likely that at least some HN readers could say "not in my lifetime"
- RedShift1 2y agoWhy is the future in the past? :-(
- Ekaros 2y agoEfficiency... Supersonic is even less green than air travel in general. Efficiency is quite a big issue always when flying is involved. Not that you can't use gliders, but those are not practical for general transport.
- jandrese 2y agoIt's not even the environment, just the cost of fuel made supersonic travel uneconomical. Saving 3 hours off of a flight isn't worth thousands of dollars to enough people. Boom's innovation is to target billionaires with supersonic bizjets. Personally I think their business model is risky, but not necessarily impossible.
- fortran77 2y agoI've already had them in my lifetime!
- fpoling 2y agoSpace tourism is commercial and very supersonic.
- melling 2y agoWhat routes do they fly? Cost?