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Airbus to help develop first supersonic business jet
How would you like to trim three hours off the current commercial jet flight time between Paris and Washington, D.C.? (www.cnn.com) Mais...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sounds good. I'm all for advancing technology.
Call me crazy but I don't there's huge market for that.
Hard to say. The Concorde was just across the Atlantic and back. Hard to say now about the Pacific rim and South America. The 100 million price tag ain't all that trashy but just how much is somebody's time worth. This is the type of thing that you'll have a breakfast meeting in Tokyo, lunch in Hong Kong and back home that night for supper with the wife and kids. That's kinda figuratively speaking and I sure can't see any reason for the seats to berth out at that kinda speed.
One thing I'm not seeing, and which they probably can't give until they decide on engines, is what the estimated range will be. If it has the legs to do LAX to SYD, then yeah, berth seats could come in handy.
At that speed?
Well, it's about 8,500 miles in a direct line. At 1,200 mph that's about 7 hours, so a nice 4-5 hour nap would be refreshing and help get acclimated to the time zone change. And that's a direct, straight line route, which probably isn't going to happen.
Well, when they get engines on it, besides the range, they'll also get the exact speed. That is a fair ways. LOL