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A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

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[-] randompasta@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Won't happen. The primary reason the Concord failed was that they couldn't make enough money. Running engines to push a plane that fast are super expensive.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Let's not forget that the Concord failed in 2003. I wonder what started happening around then that made that actual flying part a smaller fraction of the overall time spent traveling.....

Even if you can step through a portal and instantaneously get to London from NY, if you still have to go through the rest of the airline process the time savings just isn't that huge.

[-] randompasta@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

The one where a part from another plane fell off and got ingested into the Concord's engine? It's hard to see that as Concord's fault, but there was significant loss of life and reputation. But that really shouldn't be characterized as a Concord failure.

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

No, 9/11 security theatre

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