Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight

Re:Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight by zardo on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:55PM (#27132454)

I'm pretty skeptical you could get approval to do daily launch service anywhere near most major cities.

Especially in a world where super sonic passenger aircraft are flying.

If Starship does suborbital passenger service, I expect it will be limited to a handful of routes.

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Re:Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight by aerophilic on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:11PM (#27132667)

I agree… but you only need strategically placed “hubs” that you can connect to. Similar to our previous hub and spike model for previous travel. This can bring a trip to New York -> Tokyo down to 3 hours.

I still suspect that the number of issues for overland super sonic is going to have similar issues as starling landings…

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