Isn't one of the main drawbacks of supersonic flight the noise?
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#12What a great time to get into the small confined shared space industry!
,,The timeline for the planned entry into airline service has now also slipped from the previously envisaged 2023-24 to between 2025 and 2027.''
I think COVID-19 won't be a problem in 2025 anymore.
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#14Isn't one of the main drawbacks of supersonic flight the noise?
In particular the sonic boom. There are ways to reduce that and they are trying to.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?
Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/01/04/boom-... So yeah it’s gonna take a lot more money. I hope they get it!
> Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars.
From the article, it sounds like that's just the cost of development. They're going to need a hefty chunk on top of that for lobbying.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?
Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/01/04/boom-... So yeah it’s gonna take a lot more money. I hope they get it!
They may also find SpaceX eating their lunch, if the rumors of ballistic flights have any substance to them at all.
And the EPA doesn't curb-stomp them.
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#17>the development of the first privately built supersonic airliner and the second ever after Concorde Sad that in a rather specialized article author isn't familiar with such basic facts.
"Privately built", so it's technically accurate, even if there's still an elephant in the room. Similar to that amusing SpaceX marketing speak with the Falcon Heavy being "the most powerful orbital rocket since Saturn V", which was also technically true because both Energia flights were payload-assisted. (they changed that line since then)
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#18If I recall correctly the Concorde used about 2 tonnes of fuel rolling on the ground alone.. I wonder how this new aircraft fares for fuel consumption?
I believe the Concorde is a marvel. You could travel faster than the rotation of the earth in it! However I don’t think we need more environmentally unsustainable travel.
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#19Please don't let COVID-19 kill this thing. They're going to need a lot of money to build the full-size plane and it's going to be hard to get it if airlines are cancelling orders and not placing any new ones for planes: https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/wordpress/2020/05/19/a...