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Affordable Supersonic Flight on the Horizon: Boom Unveils XB-1 Supersonic Demo (prnewswire.com)
3 points by igravious on Nov 16, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This looks very cool. I was so disappointed by Concorde never really gaining enough popularity to drive costs down to a reasonable level.

I wonder what they mean by "affordable"; the article says the Boom XB-1 carries 55 passengers at high capacity, but a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for example can cram 335 passengers. Either way this is great and if it gains traction costs will inevitably go down, but I wonder what we are talking about price wise in the immediate future.




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