Sadly, missile technology usurped bombers, so there was no reason for the government to pay for the development of large, ultra-fast aircraft after the early 70s
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kandoh@reddthat.com 10 months ago
My father’s generation thought planes would just get faster and faster and by now we’d be able to fly from NYC to Tokyo in 40 minutes
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
kandoh@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Just put seats on the missile then? I don’t know I’m not an engineer
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Elon already thought of that
Nurgus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.
rezifon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The concorde took 180 minutes (3 hours) to travel from New York to London (30,00 nautical miles).
Ignoring range limits, a trip from New York to Tokyo (5,861 nautical miles) at that speed would take 351 minutes (5.8 hours).