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Will Boom Supersonic’s new aircraft have the same fate as the Concorde?
TravelMar 5, 2018

Will Boom Supersonic’s new aircraft have the same fate as the Concorde?

Concorde died because it was too expensive to operate. You can make a good argument that the project was doomed from the outset, because it was launched before the technology for efficient and…

Why hasn’t airline travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?
TravelMar 5, 2018

Why hasn’t airline travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?

There are lots of interrelated causes, but TL/DR we biffed the introduction of supersonics in the 1970s — building large SSTs before we had the tech to make them efficient — and then banned…

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