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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by dehrmann on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:27AM (#27382777)
> 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.

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Re:United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:55AM (#27383244)
> 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. ;)

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