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A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

  • randompasta@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Won’t happen. The primary reason the Concord failed was that they couldn’t make enough money. Running engines to push a plane that fast are super expensive.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Because it turned out that no one really needs to get between the UK and the US that quickly. If they do need to get between the UK and the US they’re prepared to pay less for it to take longer because the price difference is substantial.

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Not only nobody needs to do that trip that fast, but we’re not in the early 00’s anymore, and there has never been as many tools to communicate and collaborate remotely. So I’d expect a non-negligible part of these don’t even need to do the trip anymore if they want to save money and time.

          • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Not only nobody needs to do that trip that fast,

            I’d say using “nobody” is unwarranted… some people might’ve needed at some point. Regardless, it’s not a need, it’s a want.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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            2 days ago

            To be honest conferencing was pretty easy even back in the days of Concord. It was kind of a pointless vehicle really.

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Let’s not forget that the Concord failed in 2003. I wonder what started happening around then that made that actual flying part a smaller fraction of the overall time spent traveling…

      Even if you can step through a portal and instantaneously get to London from NY, if you still have to go through the rest of the airline process the time savings just isn’t that huge.

      • randompasta@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The one where a part from another plane fell off and got ingested into the Concord’s engine? It’s hard to see that as Concord’s fault, but there was significant loss of life and reputation. But that really shouldn’t be characterized as a Concord failure.