Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
by jandrese on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:25PM
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New York to Sydney for $100 in 4 hours? My bullshit alarm is blaring. Unless they have a secret teleporter project they aren't telling people about. If you're burning dinosaurs to do that it is not happening, not unless oil becomes magically free and even then I think you would struggle to make ends meet.
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Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @02:32PM
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> New York to Sydney for $100 in 4 hours? My bullshit alarm is blaring
LA to Sydney is $10k on a good day for lie flat. You could probably charge $15 even 20k a seat and (a) turn a profit (b) filling the plane.
Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
by SahAssar on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:41PM
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Did you miss the part you quoted that said "$100 in 4 hours"? It does not say $100k.
Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:13PM
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> It does not say $100k
>> You could probably charge $15 even 20k a seat
Neither do I.
Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
by senordevnyc on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:28PM
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That’s overstating it. I literally did this flight in Polaris yesterday (from NYC), and I’d say tickets from LA are more like $5-7k. There are lots of options from LA to Sydney next week in that range.