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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by kchoudhu on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:51PM (#12789482)
The name is something I don't necessarily want to associate with an airplane.
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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by imglorp on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:22PM (#12789760)
It's a clever name, drawing on two of the three related meanings for Boom. But yeah, the first bad press will jump on that one.
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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by johnm1019 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:18PM (#12789730)
I hadn't thought about that, it's a great point. This company wants to make a product that is neither the "sonic ..." or the "going ..." of their name. They should change that.
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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by astrodust on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:07PM (#12789622)
Michael Bay could do their launch video.
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