Boom $5k return - 3.4 hours LHR/JFK
Mar 28, 2016, 9:27 am
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You'll probably to hitch a ride in the back seat of a Blackbird to get that kind of speed! AFAIK, it's still the only manned jet (that we know of) to go coast-to-coast in 59 minutes.
Mar 28, 2016, 7:14 pm
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The C-Series program costed $5.4B. The Embraer E2 was cheap at 1.7B. These are established companies with hundreds and hundreds of similar planes sold. (the CRJ700/900/1000 alone sold 829). I do not see where that kinds of money will come from to an unknown.
Mar 29, 2016, 12:10 pm
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The unknown companies won't be the ones who eventually build the production planes. In order for you or I to ever board a supersonic AA flight from LAX to JFK, it'll have to be Boeing or Airbus building it. That's where the billions will come from.
Mar 30, 2016, 9:25 am
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You are right, unless a multi-billionaire in the ME invests tonnes of cash into Bombardier, Embraer, Lokheed Martin, or BAE even. You could even have national governments investing the money as we saw with Concorde.