British Branson has the ambition to carry passengers across the Atlantic in excess of three hours by supersonic aircraft from 2023. Already the next year a smaller prototype to be tested.
the Prototype of the aircraft have been baptized, XB-1, and shall be developed by the Bransons company Spaceship and the american Boom.
I have long been concerned with innovation in aviation and the development of commercial supersonic flight, ” says Branson to The Guardian.
The cheapest tickets will cost down to 2.500 dollars, according to Boom.
Expensive to develop
But there are several reefs in the sea flyentusiaster that dreams of to put the supersonic aircraft in commercial aviation again. Sky-high development costs are one of the biggest obstacles, in addition to the great fuel consumption.
According to the WSJ, it will cost one billion dollars to develop the aircraft.
It can therefore be somewhat challenging to recoup the costs with around 50 passenger seats per flight.
Utviklingspartnerne is, however, optimistic and believe it is far easier today to develop supersonic aircraft that are profitable, than when the Concorde aircraft was designed to be a part of commercial aviation in 1976.
another obstacle is a prohibition in most countries to fly at speeds breaking the sound barrier because of the speed provides.
TO the united STATES IN RAKETTFART: With three engines to Bransons supersonic aircraft will take you across the Atlantic at twice the speed of today’s airliners.
Recompensed not only with the Concorde fly
the Last time a supersonic aircraft was a part of commercial aviation was the airline that Air France and British Airways that transported wealthy passengers with their Concorde aircraft.
despite the fact that the flights cost between 20.000 and 45.000 million (in year 2000), was also the airlines with insufficient revenues in relation to the construction costs and the operating costs of the aircraft.
25. July 2000 crashed a Concorde aircraft at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Paris. 109 people were killed. All the planes were sporenstreks set on the ground, and british aviation authorities withdrew flytillatelsen.
Several actors have the last few years snust on the opportunity to put the supersonic aircraft in ruteprogrammet. In 2015 got Airbus approved a patent for a supersonic aircraft that can carry passengers from Oslo to Tokyo in an hour and a half.
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