[EdnaMode]

[alexander_busek]

Let's see... 2-1/2 hrs waiting in line to deposit your luggage, then waiting in line for PSA, waiting at the gate, then at least another half an hour sitting on the tarmac - then 90 minutes in the air, en route to London - then landing, taxiing, retrieving your luggage, getting through Customs...

Yeah, sure!

Regards,

[headstamp 2]

Will take quite an airframe to do that on a continual basis.

[irishjuggler]

“Could” but “won’t.”
Until the sonic boom problem is mitigated, this is just science fiction.
Plus, the Concorde established that...
1. Government regulators hate supersonic.
2. Passengers will pay a little more for a faster flight but not a lot more.

[dfwgator]

On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we’ll be A.O.K

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

-Donald Fagen

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I’ve been hearing about these hypersonic jets since the Reagan administration - lots of talk, no action. I was a teenager when President Reagan talked about a new Orient Express, capable of flying from Washington to Tokyo in 2 hours - I expect I’ll be dead of old age before any such thing is ever built. The early 20th century’s pace of technological innovation is over.

[TigersEye]

This can’t be true. Cow Fartz Cortez says we’re going to eliminate all air travel in the next ten years.

[Jeff Chandler]

the idea isn't without some baggage.

Oh, I think they'll still find a way to lose it.

[Spok]

Wouldn’t it be easier just to not get stuck in New York in the first place?

[matthew fuller]

It would take much longer than 90 min. to get me aboard the plane, even to the airport.

[Secret Agent Man]

This really isn’t that big a deal.

The idiot savant who can get people onto their flights, through TSA unmolested, in under 90 minutes, is the one who’s gonna deserve the flipping Nobel prize.

[Churchillspirit]

“Beam me up, Scotty”

[entropy12]

I flew from Seattle to Jacksonville today. It was 30 min drive to SeaTac airport, 40 min to return rental car and catch shuttle to airport departure door. Then 45 min to clear through TSA security.

Then a 30 min flight on supersonic jet to JAX?

[logi_cal869]

If people were willing to pay more for subsonic travel, we wouldn’t be faced with planes dropping out of the sky.

Word.

/s

[pepsi_junkie]

Like high speed rail, it sounds great on paper. But I would bet that government regulation will ensure that the planes never go faster than conventional jets. Consider the fast trains between New York and Washington. If you take the slow cheap train or the expensive fast train, you get there at almost the same time. Because government regulations prevent the fast train from actually going fast.

[BobL]

Actually the real prize is the other ocean, the Pacific, where 14 hour flights are normal. Knock them down to 3 hours and that is a serious improvement.

[SauronOfMordor]

Concord didn’t shorten door-to-door travel time across the Atlantic enough to justify its much higher cost, and didn’t have the range for trans-Pacific flights, where people WOULD pay a lot more if they could cut the 12 to 21 hour flight times.

[lefty-lie-spy]

But who in the world actually WANTS to go to f’n New York or f’n London?

[moovova]

But how long will it take my stomach to catch up?

[trebb]

Remember the SST!

[sparklite2]

it has obtained funding to pursue development of a plane that could...

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...fly faster than the customer’s ability to afford a ticket to ride it.