A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.
This feels like a “may be able to” situation. Once they’ve completed a flight from New York to London, I can get on board with the notion of them being able to fly from New York to London.
To put this in perspective, you could have breakfast in London and make it to New York in time for a mid-morning coffee, with the journey taking just 1.5 hours.
Uh, let me do the math on that one…
If I eat breakfast in London at 8am, and then immediately board a Hypersonic jet to New York at 8:30am, I’ll arrive in NYC at 3pm, having missed mid-morning coffee by about 4 hours before I ate breakfast…
Yeah they really didn’t think through time zones there…
There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft
Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.
Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.
The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.
The “can” in this title is pretty disingenuous.
that went well for concorde, didn’t it?
