arstechnica ,
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It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight

"This milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of supersonic travel."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-a-few-years-late-but-a-prototype-supersonic-airplane-has-taken-flight/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

isonno ,
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@arstechnica They can't even raise the landing gear??

ctrlsaltdelete ,
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@arstechnica calling it now (with basically no evidence) that this is going to be less "Concorde" and more "Nikola but with planes"

_Colin_Watson ,
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@arstechnica 273mph is subsonic. 1 crew and 0 passengers. Why is this being compared with Concorde?

dacig ,
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@arstechnica YES ! We need planes that use double the fuel so a bunch of rich people can travel a bit faster on a cramped plane to arrive at a customs bottleneck followed by a land transportacion bottleneck. All in the name of grift an status.

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