Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by dehrmann on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:27AM
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> Tokyo - Seattle is about the furthest within that
There's about the shortest viable route I can imagine. I could see refueling stops being a thing, though. SFO-SIN is a pretty long flight, so an hour to refuel in Tokyo wouldn't be so bad.
Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:55AM
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> There's about the shortest viable route I can imagine
Right, this (Tokyo - Seattle) seems like a minimum viable Pacific crossing.
San Francisco to Tokyo is 5,133 miles, so it is out of range.
How about San Francisco to Hawaii, Hawaii to Tokyo, and Tokyo to Singapore. ;)
- much lower noise than Concorde (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion). Ironically, they reduce the "boom".
- Pacific crossings. 4,900 miles range ( https://onemileatatime.com/boom-supersonic/ ) Tokyo - Seattle is about the furthest within that, at 4,777 miles. California to Hawaii is easily in range, USA to Australia is far out of range, but Brisbane to Hawaii is in range.
- Article talks about 15 planes not one.
Have they solved those yet? They're not flying yet, so no. But that's what they're aiming at.