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In reply to the discussion: United Airlines Wants to Bring Back Supersonic Air Travel [View all]yonder
(9,665 posts)That was an incorrect inference made by the poster to my rhetorical question. Thinking twice, should we?, about developing commercial supersonic aircraft would have been accurate.
We already have the technology to speed people around at Mach+ and I certainly expect that development to continue. Yes, I implied that the development of that technology for commercial purposes may not be in the best interests of the common good, given the very real needs that currently exist on the ground and which remain unaddressed.
Us frogs in the boiling pot, wealthy or not, may not have much more time to enjoy 3 hour trips across the Atlantic.
Here's an interesting link about what was discussed 50+ years ago about our own Concorde, the SST:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/b2707-problem.htm