It's pretty exciting to find oneself routinely using "subsonic" as a name for a category of airliners.
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That'll soon be an overcrowded subcategory of travel class when Boom travel becomes available (2029?)
Airlines that only have subsonic planes will become discount airlines, whether they intended to or not.
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Ok look into your crystal ball. I live near an airport. Will airport noise go up or down?
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Doubt it'll go up, they don't hit supersonic speeds til way above in altitude
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Don’t believe it: You can’t go supersonic over land without serious problems, Boom only claims to carry ~60 which isn’t even a regional jet in seat count, and they HOPE to be business class seat price, when business travel is going to be the worst to recover.
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You can make enough money flying just over water. Those are the long routes where speed matters. There are only 42 business class seats in a 787. Why would business travel be the slowest to recover?
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That was supposed to happen in the 70s when Concorde came. What has changed that would prevent history just repeating itself?
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Computers that don't involve punch cards or vacuum tubes, mainly. The phone you're typing on has greater processing capacity than the systems they used to run simulations in the 70s, 80s, even 90s.
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