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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by tommynicholas on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:06PM (#11329575)
Super smart - make good margins on a use case for the wealthy to subsidize R&D and development of scale economics, hopefully eventually get that price down so we can all use it. Hope it works!

(Writing this just to pre-empt the inevitable $5,000 THIS IS ONLY RICH PEOPLE comments :) )

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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by bscholl on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:14PM (#11329668)
Exactly. Already, this is way more affordable than private jets or Concorde. We'll keep innovating on fuel efficiency, so prices can keep coming down.
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Re:Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes by jonknee on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:23PM (#11329819)
The major difference here is the Concorde was real and actually flew. A few guys with a cardboard mockup of a cockpit can toss out any number for what it will cost for a ticket.
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