Personal aviation is about to get interesting

Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:15AM (#37995338)

London to New York, New York to San Francisco, San Francisco to Tokyo, Tokyo to Mumbai, Mumbai to London. Send a subsonic plane in the other direction.

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Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:49AM (#37995551)

> New York to San Francisco...Mumbai to London

These overfly land which, with current aerodynamics, means a small plane to keep the boom down.

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Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by extraduder_ire on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:38AM (#37996737)

Sounds like a lot of that is over land, I hear people on the ground really don't like that.

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Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:25AM (#38011275)

You're just not being ambitious enough. You have to make it fly high enough they can't hear it. Use a scramjet accelerated from the ground with a railgun and get the thing nearly into orbit, something like that.

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Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by extraduder_ire on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:24AM (#38024596)

Or shape the plane like a Busemann Biplane, so it doesn't produce a boom at all. I am a fan of parabolic-arc travel though. ICBT (inter-continental ballistic transport)

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Re:Personal aviation is about to get interesting by ehnto on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:54AM (#38035486)

An interesting side effect of that is the impact on ICBM defense protocols. If everything looks like an inbound missle you couldn't protect against them anymore, unless your protocol becomes "shoot down any ICBx trip not registered" but now you have a theoretical gun pointed at every passenger transport, ready to fire automatically for the sake of missing paperwork.

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