• kandoh@reddthat.com
    5·
    3 months ago

    My father’s generation thought planes would just get faster and faster and by now we’d be able to fly from NYC to Tokyo in 40 minutes

    • Nurgus@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.

      • rezifon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. . .

        The concorde took 180 minutes (3 hours) to travel from New York to London (3,000 nautical miles).

        Ignoring range limits, a trip from New York to Tokyo (5,861 nautical miles) at that speed would take 351 minutes (5.8 hours).

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Sadly, missile technology usurped bombers, so there was no reason for the government to pay for the development of large, ultra-fast aircraft after the early 70s