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Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

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Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Bad" names can attract lots of attention. Perhaps they're more interested in turning heads than setting up the best possible brand connotations.

Brands? Who cares? Are they the cheapest, fastest etc? I don't care which characters constitute their name, nor which bitmap they've chosen for their current logo.

You don't have to care about it, it was just pointed out for you a possible reason for the name. You can go on and care about the price, speed, etc now.

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#112
This sounds awesome. However I'm a bit saddened that there is no mention of CO2 or climate change in this discussion. What about building solar planes vs just faster planes will do even more harm to the environment if people start flying more because time is now shorter?

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#113
post #3

Sorry but is "Boom" really a good name for an aircraft company? I get it's supersonic, but my first association was an exploding airplane.

ipad got a lot of bad association initially because of the feminine hygiene product. NYT, CNN, WSJ, and many tech press criticized it soundly.

Nobody cares anymore.

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#115
post #3

Sorry but is "Boom" really a good name for an aircraft company? I get it's supersonic, but my first association was an exploding airplane.

It gets scarier, they compare it to the Concorde based on price: Unlike Concorde, flying Boom is affordable—the same price as business class. Ok, so the Concorde had some critical engineering faults, making it cheaper definitely sounds more secure.

The early promises for Concorde said it would be cost effective too.

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#117
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the problem with those was always the sonic boom created by flying at > 1 Mach. It shattered windows on the ground. Could be wrong tho

Most of that route would be over the Pacific, so it would be fine, too (although ex-West Coast US). It might be a fuel issue on distance, but probably not. Also potentially an ETOPS range issue. However, there are three big issues with transpac: (not impossible issues, but strong reasons why NYC-LON is ideal as MVP) 1) Greater number of destination cities on each side; for transatlantic, NYC-LON really is the main ma…

NYC-PEK or NYC-PVG would be awesome, but there's a lot of inland there.

A lot of really sparsely populated inland. How politically influential are the Siberian fur trappers this route [0] overflies? Enough to counteract the fat overflight fees that Russia likes to charge?

[0] http://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/great-circle-mapper/rout...

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#119
post #68

It describes their values as something like 'fly long distance in the morning, do a bunch of meetings there, and be back before the end of the day'. Does it make sense to travel 20,000km on one day to make a bunch of meetings, spending 15,000$? I feel that better tele-presence just makes more sense.

Not just the money, the environmental impact of this gives me pause. Don't get me wrong, the tech is cool. But it's just enabling a behaviour that doesn't have a positive effect on the planet.

Re: Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes

#120
post #68

It describes their values as something like 'fly long distance in the morning, do a bunch of meetings there, and be back before the end of the day'. Does it make sense to travel 20,000km on one day to make a bunch of meetings, spending 15,000$? I feel that better tele-presence just makes more sense.

The telepresence rooms we have at our corp. are 100's of thousands for a room. And you have to have another room on the other end. If it will be a consistent meeting then it makes sense to set them up but for one off meetings at different locations then the cost is not justified. I do see a stereoscopic (3D) 360 VR future someday but we have a ways to go to get the 'presence' of that down to realism still.

Startup idea: rentable tele-presence rooms. tele-presence restaurants, tele-presence bars.
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