Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft

Re:Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft by user5994461 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @12:01PM (#14382983)

700km is around 2 hours with a high speed train.

There are railway stations in every city center and it doesn't take an hour trip to get to it, contrary to an airport.

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Re:Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft by icc97 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @01:47PM (#14383470)

I don't know which land you're from, but in the US (I assume the main market) almost all trains have a max of 177 km/h [0]. There are about 4 lines in western Europe that go faster than 300 km/h [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:Hi...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:Hi...

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Re:Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft by user5994461 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:31PM (#14383632)

I am from Europe.

Well, your trains are terrible. Our have a cruise speed > 300 km/h.

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Re:Cirrus Vision – Single-engine personal jet aircraft by icc97 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @04:55PM (#14384301)

So am I.

If you check the second map from my previous comment it's of Europe from 2011 [0].

There were 5 >300 km/h trains, and 4 of those are in France.

But I think the market they're aiming at is more US - it's more sparse than Europe and more normal to travel long distances.

Nevertheless if someone was rich enough to own one and based themselves in Switzerland - with a range of 1000km you can get as far as Madrid, Malmo, any where in Italy and nearly Greece. With 2000km (which it is capable of) you can go anywhere in Europe in one go - no changing trains.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:Hi...

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