When will flights be faster?

Ever since commercial air travel became a reality, we have been teased by the promise of faster and faster flight times.

(http://imaginactive.org/)

In the 1970s, it became a reality with supersonic flight on Concorde. But only two airlines ever offered the service, it wasn’t commercially viable and, after a big accident, it was discontinued.

So in a world where we expect everything to be better, what is next?

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Back to the future

While the prospect of supersonic flight intrigues me, I’m not so sure I’d want to fly on an aircraft called Boom.

(Boomsupersonic.com)

But it seems that Boom, a company founded by former Amazon executive Blake Scholl, will be the first to makeĀ  affordable ultrafast commercial flight available.

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