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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by ghaff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:11PM (#12789670)
I'm more inclined to use terms like boring than brutal.

I suspect that it's highly questionable whether a supersonic design would be able to do the "brutally long" flights without refueling. The market for the Concorde and I imagine the market for this is the CEO/investment banker/international lawyer who wants to do a quick hop from NYC to London or Paris--including day trips.

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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by United857 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:49PM (#12789988)
The big difference was that Concorde mostly existed before the Internet. With email and video conferencing, the need for a lot of these 1-day out and back trips has likely been greatly reduced.
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