4 hours ago, Luke said:

I'm curious how much the deposit actually was, per aircraft. That makes a difference.

Cheers!

AA will have to disclose that since it’s a publicly traded company, but I’d be curious to know as well.

12 hours ago, dave2013 said:

 

I'm betting that only well-to-do folks will be able to afford to fly on this thing.  The marketing is aimed at the upper middle class folks who want to feel good about being 

According to the article below, the tickets when they plane is due to be in service by 2029, will be $4000 to $5000 for New York to London in 3-1/2 hours.

When I fly from JFK to Paris on a 787 it only takes about 6 hours and I can get a business class ticket for half that price. 
 

2 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

According to the article below, the tickets when they plane is due to be in service by 2029, will be $4000 to $5000 for New York to London in 3-1/2 hours.

When I fly from JFK to Paris on a 787 it only takes about 6 hours and I can get a business class ticket for half that price. 
 

 

Yikes! Guess I won't be flying supersonic on Mr Boom then. 

3 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

According to the article below, the tickets when they plane is due to be in service by 2029,

That sounds an incredibly optimistic target given it hasn’t been built yet. Concorde’s first test flight was March 1969 but didn’t start a commercial service to JFK until 1976. No doubt the environmentalists and the US govt had an impact on that delay.

But the environmentalists are even more vocal these days.

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

But the environmentalists are even more vocal these days.

Just a thought. Is that what they would have called the vocal opposition to the Motor Car in the late 1800s?

11 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Concorde’s most lucrative route was LHR to JFK. This allowed British businessmen to fly to New York departing 10:30 and land at 09:00. They could conduct 3-4 hours of business and depart JFK around 14:30 getting back to LHR around 23:00.

This might have been useful in 1976 for business when there was no widespread internet, no mobile phone networks, nor little in the way of electronic transaction infrastructures or any of that kind of stuff, but for almost three decades now, there hasn't really been much of a requirement to whizz across the Atlantic or any other ocean to do anything like that. Why only this morning I had a prince contact me all the way from Nigeria concerning a lucrative business deal where I will get 30 million Dollars, without even leaving my study or doing anything else! I'm just waiting for that deal to go through, then I think I'm going to get my own BOOM supersonic aeroplane to fly around in. 🤣 🚀

16 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

Just a thought. Is that what they would have called the vocal opposition to the Motor Car in the late 1800s?

Not being alive at the time that's a tricky one tp answer. 😁

12 minutes ago, Chock said:

This might have been useful in 1976 for business when there was no widespread internet, no mobile phone networks, nor little in the way of electronic transaction infrastructures or any of that kind of stuff, but for almost three decades now, there hasn't really been much of a requirement to whizz across the Atlantic or any other ocean to do anything like that.

Then it's all the more baffling why they think there's a market for a supersonic airliner.

Don't forget AvSim when your inheritance comes through. 🤣

Having now received 30 million dollars from my business deal this morning, I decided to invest it in developing my own supersonic airliner. It's still early days, I only designed it a minute ago, but already I have matched BOOM's level of progress, by doing my own concept drawing of an aeroplane and not actually building anything yet, which is where they are at the moment as well, so progress has been fairly rapid. By this afternoon I expect to surpass their efforts by knocking something up in my shed, so I present to you the impressive concept drawing of the new KABOOM X1000:

 

 And they tried to ban Concord and no green agender then.  

1 minute ago, G-RFRY said:

 And they tried to ban Concord and no green agender then.  

This will not be a problem for my airliner: I expect some lucrative orders from the UK regionals, who will be able to fly a Manchester to Aberdeen route in approximately three seconds, based on my projected target cruise speed for KABOOM of Mach 23. Going at this speed means the thing will have completed its flight, landed and parked up in a hangar where nobody can see it before anyone even hears a sonic boom, which means we can blame the noise on something else. I will offset the carbon my planting a nice rose bush in my garden, which I reckon should do it. The first test flight will take place in October, when the clocks go back, so I will be able to claim the plane actually completed the flight an hour before it even taxied out to the runway, therefore being much faster than BOOM for some useful marketing kudos. Making it out of balsa wood and plastic will keep costs down and means I can utulise my considerable previous experience with having made lots of model aeroplanes, and of course means it will be very light which facilitates its projected target cruise speed of Mach 23.

16 hours ago, mazelda said:

Telling them they can't fly supersonic over UK/Europe  would seem like a nice little sting in the tail.

We have long memories

Right? That was what I was wondering two. THis still is the case right?

@Chock

How will this be greenwashed? 😉

22 minutes ago, Chock said:

This will not be a problem for my airliner: I expect some lucrative orders from the UK regionals, who will be able to fly a Manchester to Aberdeen route in approximately three seconds, based on my projected target cruise speed for KABOOM of Mach 23. Going at this speed means the thing will have completed its flight, landed and parked up in a hangar where nobody can see it before anyone even hears a sonic boom, which means we can blame the noise on something else. I will offset the carbon my planting a nice rose bush in my garden, which I reckon should do it. The first test flight will take place in October, when the clocks go back, so I will be able to claim the plane actually completed the flight an hour before it even taxied out to the runway, therefore being much faster than BOOM for some useful marketing kudos. Making it out of balsa wood and plastic will keep costs down and means I can utulise my considerable previous experience with having made lots of model aeroplanes, and of course means it will be very light which facilitates its projected target cruise speed of Mach 23.

I thick they will be more interested in Aberdeen to Manchester three seconds and 5 hours to clear through the airport 🤣🤣. 

 

I wonder how many 747's were pre-ordered before it actually took to the skies?  

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Then it's all the more baffling why they think there's a market for a supersonic airliner.

 

Well, no less than THREE major airlines have taken this seriously and placed orders, not to mention placed non-refundable deposits. So I would have to ask if three major airlines and the company developing this aircraft, and the accountants that work for those companies, and the individuals paid to assess the viability of such concepts... are aware of something "guys on a forum" aren't. 

I'm thinking probably yes. 😀 Unless they're incompetent of course. 

Meanwhile Kim and Kylie take 15 minute flights in their business jets, so I'm sure they, and many other extravagant celebrities, would favour our Mr Boom. 👍

Edited August 18, 20223 yr by martin-w