World’s fastest airliner ‘Overture’ to usher in new era of supersonic travel

NY Post ^ | 08/14/2022 | Steve YablonskI

[Paladin2]

But can it use the Davos airport?

[Still Thinking]

But we do have chimpanzees and humpy-backed camels.

[dfwgator]

90 minutes from New York to Paris, well by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK!

[Freedom4US]

It hasn’t been invented yet. Not even a prototype has flown. So at this point it’s just a fairy tale.

[Tallguy]

John Kerry and Al Gore already have theirs on order. Scr3w the little people, right?

[sasquatch]

I used 24/7. (The article didn’t say man hrs)

/s

[Mark17]

But we do have chimpanzees and humpy-backed camels.

We did indeed, but don’t forget the cats and rats and elephants. 😂

[FtrPilot]

26,000,000/2000=13,000 man years.

Or put in $$ terms:

26,000,000 * $120 (fully burdened hourly rate for a fully qualified aerospace design engineer) = $3,120,000,000.

$3.12 Billion for a paper airplane...no way!

[Michael.SF.]

The plane pictured sure looks like it holds more than 80 passengers.

[sit-rep]

well dayum!! tha would cut the normal 14 hour trip on the first leg of my Asian excursions down to maybe 6 or 7 hours! But I doubt they would be close to the normal $457.00 rnd trip out of Ohare I am used to paying!

[Michael.SF.]

Some of them worked overtime.

;)

[Still Thinking]

That’s right! And long-necked geese!

[Still Thinking]

I saw a concept sketch one time of a plane with normal size wings, but all the way to the back. Apparently their design fu is so strong they’ve overcome gravity! [eyeroll]

[SaveFerris]

Those trains all graphite and glitter

Been too long - maybe 1975?

[xp38]

It’s amusing they call themselves Boom. One of the problems with the Concorde was of course sonic booms so that it had to be well away from a city or over the ocean before it could go supersonic. Will this thing have quieter sonic booms?

[xp38]

Sort of like the old Popular Mechanics covers. Still waiting for our flying cars

[bobcat62]

There may be no windshield. Video cameras.

[Hootowl99]

I've worked with about half of the raw materials on the OP’s list of sustainable feedstocks to process into “sustainable” fuel. Computer modeling, process engineering design and economics, pilot plant, semi plant.

I call BS on this technological black hole that endlessly sucks down wasted $$$.

Pick your favorite failure mode…. Capital cost way more than the amount plucked out the air by promoters, online availability much lower than claimed, way excessive maintenance costs, feedstock availability over estimated, etc.

Jimmy Carter style deja vu all over again. A game is being played out.

The supersonic aircraft itself may be an amazingly successful technology - I have no idea, outside my expertise. The trendy hook of sustainable energy is a toss out to secure funding. Reel in a big $$$ sucker.

[Flick Lives]

60 - 80 passengers? Hard to see it making a profit.

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That’s one of the issues with supersonic passenger planes, you can’t have a wide fuselage cross-section, so you’re pretty well limited to 4 across seating.

[unread]

"What kind of fuel does it use?"

Bull shit...