© BoomBetter than Concorde: Boom Supersonic will take passengers from New York to London in two hours
The Boom Supersonic will be able to take passengers from New York to London in little over two hours as she hurtles at 1,687mph across the Atlantic.
Flight firm Boom has promised the plane will make its first test flight new year - with a mini proof-of-concept jet called the XB-1.
Boom Supersonic is boasted to be nearly three times as fast as regular airliners, but seats will cost the same as normal flights.
This is unlike now-retired luxury airliner Concorde that charged a small fortune for seats.
Company founder Blake Scholl, who is also a pilot, claimed the plane will be both faster and quieter than its legendary predecessor.
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This photo much like the Hindenburg photo will forever hinder any attempts to revisit the horror however remote. The very slim margin of error separating a normal flight for either of these aircraft was FAR too small, the Photos of the burning wreckage over time will constantly sear the truth into all successful designers of future systems and craft with the need to keep safety margins a SAFE as is humanly possible. Boom just continues the same path as Concorde and even reduces the margin, Failure is all they can expect. Boom, what a dumb name.
150,000 years ago the inhabitants of India were flitting around in electro-gravitic craft at 5,000 mph or more. Reminds me of today's windmills to produce electricity when Nicola Tesla extracted energy directly from the primordial substrate (aether) nearly 100 years ago. What a ridiculous world we are forced to live in. Why do we put up with this technological enslavement?
Do you recall 1950's artistic renditions of the year 2000 depicting a Jetson's lifestyle? And we are still shackled to internal combustion piston-driven engines!! "Clinking, clanking, caliginous collections of junk!" Wizard of Oz
Boy! Are we gluttons for punishment.
What an ass-backwards world we live in!
Row, row, row your joke, gently down the airstream. Will we ever be freed from internal combustion slavery?