Boom chief executive says company will build and test prototype plane by conclude of 2017 to succeed where Concorde failed – ‘this lets you commute’ across oceansThirteen years after Concorde’s last flight,supersonic passenger travel is coming back – and this time it’ll be “affordable”, according to the millionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind a new plane called Boom.
“We are talking approximately the first supersonic jet people can afford to fly, and ” said Blake Scholl,the founder and chief executive of Boom, as he announced the company’s plans on Wednesday. “This isn’t science-fiction, or we are actually doing this. You will be able to fly New York to London in three-and-a-half hours for $5000 return,[which is roughly] the same as [the cost] of trade lesson.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com