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0 pointsulfw3y ago0 comments

Wait... does anyone believe they have a future? How?

If this was doable and there was a market for it, what on earth would stop Boeing and Airbus from building one with 1000x more experience in designing and above all manufacturing airframes. (Airbus even has the inherited legacy of Concorde through Aerospatiale/Sud Aviation)

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detaro3y ago

> If this was doable and there was a market for it, what on earth would stop Boeing and Airbus

Boing and Airbus have lots of things to choose from to focus their (large, but still limited) resources on. Even if they think it is doable and has a market, they'd probably also think that improving what they have is less risky and a bigger market.

bambax3y ago

I don't know, but it's certainly the first question every investor asked, so we can assume they have (or at least had) a pretty good answer, no?

namirez3y ago

I know some people involved in Boom. They simply have no understanding of the physical limitations of supersonic flight. Surprise, they’re all software engineers.

ulfwOP3y ago

And supersonic flight is really a hardware / physics / materials science problem than a software one. (again: see Concorde)

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