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The race to build a successor to Concorde: Boeing, Gulfstream & NASA join forces.
Aircraft enthusiasts are waiting with growing anticipation for the unveiling of plans for a supersonic jet that may be able to fly London to Sydney in just four hours. U.S. builders - helped by the Nasa space agency - will reveal the prototype successors to Concorde at the Farnborough air show next month. Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Gulfstream are leading the way to build the new supersonic passenger plane which will be targeted at first at the business jet market. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Screw all the naysayers - I think it's doable, and at a profit too.
Well thought . One can not stick to past failures and get stuck . We moved from balloon flying to aircraft , didn't we ? High time we translated space flying into every day flying ! Good luck . boyz n galz there ! .
Once again the "Mail" shows it's excellent understanding of all things technical.
12000 miles at 2500 mph = 4 hours.............amazing
12000 miles at 2500 mph = 4 hours.............amazing
Beam me up, Scotty!
If the plane flies 4 times faster than a G650, and costs 25% more,($80M vs.$ 64M ) it should be feasible. Even after delays and cost increases push the price over $100M it will still make sense as a Business Jet, but probably not as an airliner. When money is not a limiting factor there is little that can't be accomplished. It would be great to see an American plane be the next SST.
It would be nice to see the US get back into the SST game. I remember an old Webster's Dictionary my parents bought (was sold in sections at the grocery store) back in '68. One of the pictures inside was an artist rendering of the Boeing SST in PanAm livery. That would've been so cool.