Aviation Ping!.....................
A long, skinny fuselage isn’t going to hold many passengers. No chance of it being a commercial success when it is scaled up to airliner size.
Probably could develop a corporate jet to shuttle the elites to Davos.
We grew up with sonic booms galore. I'm about to turn 70, and I am just fine.
Grew up in Kalifornia, when it was California and Reagan Country. Military bases everywhere, and we looooved all the jets and sonic booms.
Back in January, the company Boom Supersonic successfully tested their own supersonic aircraft with the aim of returning supersonic service to the world’s skies. The FR article I read didn’t mention any new, boom-dampening technologies discussed hereby. Only that they were trying to get a craft ready for commercial use into production. The original post here reminded me of Boom Supersonic’s efforts.
Just keep all CCP engineers (spies) away from the project.
Let China develop new technology without looking over Uncle Sam’s shoulder.
Looks like a pelican
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