“Ninety Minutes from New York to Paris”
Still hasn’t happened for civilians. The SR-71 did New York to London in 1 hour 54 minutes in 1974. I took the Concorde from London to DC and it took 3 hours and 45 minutes.
I thought this song did a better job predicting the future;
Manfer Mann - “Lies (Through The 80s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FGZk98BDSY
90 minutes from New York to Paris...
If you dig a perfectly straight tunnel between any two points on earth, and have a frictionless car running in an evacuated tube, it will roll through the tube and occupants back and forth by gravity alone, with a period of 184 minutes, so the one way trip from NY to Paris would take 92 minutes.
Phun with Physics...