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

  •  Hirom   ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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    19 days ago

    There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

    Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.

    • Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.

      The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.