4/3: New Boeing jet

[adamzion]

Originally posted by Tony Shepps
Boeing had a lot of flak over it's corporate HQ news last week, and skipped was this news, that they want to build this jet rather than more stretch 747s or whatnot. This is an artist's rendering. The trend is towards speed, and this jet would fly just under supersonic. It would shave off some time on cross-country flights.
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I guess Boeing's engineers decided that the <b>very</b> significant increase in fuel use required for supersonic flight wasn't worth it for the relatively insignificant increase in speed when compared to a plane which can fly at speeds which are just subsonic enough to avoid running into problems with the sound barrier.

Good call,
Z