Boom Aerospace Company Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Civilian Travel (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:06AM from the two-for-the-price-of-one dept.

pacopico writes: A startup out of Denver called Boom Technology has just come out of stealth mode [by] talking-up their supersonic jet. It would carry 40 passengers and travel at Mach 2.2. The company claims that it's about 30 percent more fuel-efficient than the Concorde. Based on this, it could get its prices down to the equivalent of a business class seat on long-haul flights. At Mach 2.2, a trip from New York to London would take 3.4 hours. Boom is meant to start test flights next year out of John Denver's old hangar.

1 of 139 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Almost as good as Concorde engineering by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-21 08:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Next we'll have a plane that goes almost as fast as the SR-71, and a space rocket that can lift nearly as much as Saturn V.
Truly incredible what we have achieved in the computer age in just 30 years.