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We've already had commercial supersonic flight in our lifetimes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde




Retired in '03, seems likely that at least some HN readers could say "not in my lifetime"


Why is the future in the past? :-(


Efficiency... Supersonic is even less green than air travel in general. Efficiency is quite a big issue always when flying is involved. Not that you can't use gliders, but those are not practical for general transport.


It's not even the environment, just the cost of fuel made supersonic travel uneconomical. Saving 3 hours off of a flight isn't worth thousands of dollars to enough people. Boom's innovation is to target billionaires with supersonic bizjets. Personally I think their business model is risky, but not necessarily impossible.


Yes but there are now adults who were born after the last flight…


They can legally drink (in the US) but I don't know that we would all agree that they can be called adults quite yet.




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