How to do better than the Concorde? Design with computers, build out of composites, and use better engines.https://blog.boomsupersonic.com/the-big-3-components-of-supersonic-aircraft-c1c614aeedbb …
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None. Just greater frequency and longer routes and better WiFi is what’s shown to work
Let me give you a tip about how to do Futures and Insights properly: when a bunch of smart people are working on something that seems implausible to you, ask yourself what you might be overlooking.
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In this case you are overlooking something very specific. I'll give you as long as you want to figure it out. Let me know when you give up and you want me to tell you the answer.
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Timezones?
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The long history of perfect innovation from engineers who have perfected the art of making things the world doesn’t want on the basis that it somehow will inevitably go from luxury toy to everyday essentials.
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As Concorde is the benchmark, this will be cheaper to develop, perhaps cheaper to produce, and cheaper to operate ("Boom is targeting fuel-burn parity with subsonic business class"). Therefore seats don't need to be priced at much of a premium to be profitable & very attractive.
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Next step is suborbital at same cost. That is where we are going for the next 30 to 50 years. In the meantime we’ll just binge a little more on podcasts and Netflix. Ask Bezos and Gates if they would buy one, there’s the market. And Bezos already bought himself a rocket company.
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