Oh, Your Private Jet Is Just Subsonic?

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday September 4, 2001 @04:45AM from the technology-innovation dept.

zerogeewhiz writes "Found this article here at The Sydney Morning Herald . It seems that Bill and his mates need to move a bit quicker these days and for a cool US$80 million, you too can overtake the Concorde on a dash to Harrods for dinner. As described in the article, the main complaint about Concorde is that it can only fly supersonic over water and creates those nasty sonic booms that punch holes in buildings and shatter windows. They reckon they can get rid of these waves by making the plane longer. These are gonna be fast but hideous. 737-700s are suddenly passe as a corporate jet..."

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For this kind of money... by Waffle+Iron · 2001-09-04 05:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

... I bet that you could put together a teleconferencing system with close to IMAX quality. It would use a lot less fuel, too.
A dedicated 100-Mb fiber link should be sufficient. Imagine hardball business negotiations in 9-channel Dolby surround sound.
Eye Candy by Kozz · 2001-09-04 05:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

Take a look at a photo of a sonic boom.

And for the record, the Lameness filter sucks.

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