NASA appears to be pulling its SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest production plane ever made, out of retirement as the Trump administration teases its new line of hypersonic surveillance jets — but doubt…
Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I’d love to know what NASA has planned for it.
The original was already pretty packed (I visited it) and there’s a limit to how little leg room you can take away from someone paying concorde prices for a flight…
And keep in mind that many of the recent advances in planes revolve around high - bypass designs which only work subsonic if I’m not mistaken.
And before then, the concorde was already 3-4x more fuel per seat…
Yeah, I’m not an aerospace guy, but I’m wondering whether the maturity of the commerical passenger air travel industry has lessons to adopt for the 60 years since the Concorde was designed. The cabin and fuselage were so small that there’s not a lot of room for different seating configurations, the over-land speed restrictions limited its feasible routes.
I’m middle of the road when it comes to optimism about whether commercial supersonic flight will approach business class prices within the next 2 or 3 decades, and whether such a service could one day be environmentally equivalent to the 2026 impact of 2026 commerical air travel.
The original was already pretty packed (I visited it) and there’s a limit to how little leg room you can take away from someone paying concorde prices for a flight…
And keep in mind that many of the recent advances in planes revolve around high - bypass designs which only work subsonic if I’m not mistaken.
And before then, the concorde was already 3-4x more fuel per seat…
Yeah, I’m not an aerospace guy, but I’m wondering whether the maturity of the commerical passenger air travel industry has lessons to adopt for the 60 years since the Concorde was designed. The cabin and fuselage were so small that there’s not a lot of room for different seating configurations, the over-land speed restrictions limited its feasible routes.
I’m middle of the road when it comes to optimism about whether commercial supersonic flight will approach business class prices within the next 2 or 3 decades, and whether such a service could one day be environmentally equivalent to the 2026 impact of 2026 commerical air travel.