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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.

The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.