Royalswissarmyknife Posted January 3, 2024 Share Posted January 3, 2024 Couldn't find a thread about Boom so decided to make this. Boom has done a engine test on their XB-1. Spoiler If there's another thread about Boom please merge or delete this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted January 5, 2024 Share Posted January 5, 2024 On 1/3/2024 at 11:38 AM, Royalswissarmyknife said: Couldn't find a thread about Boom so decided to make this. Boom has done a engine test on their XB-1. Reveal hidden contents If there's another thread about Boom please merge or delete this thread. I thought I remembered there being one, but I did a search and couldn’t find any. Maybe it was just posted in the science news section or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Awakening the dead thread. Bring out yer dead! I ain’t dead yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Nice. Might have an interesting impact on what regular flights look like. I have seen that the airliner version would have seats at a sort of business class price, ~$5000 (vs $20,000 on Concorde back in the day—in back in the day dollars, so way more now). United, American, and JAL want to buy. Regular flights on the same routes go all economy? Or do they drop prices on the seat upgrades? If my choice was to fly to London for $5k in half the time, or anything even approaching $5k for twice the time, it's a no-brainer. The seats look to be the same as current domestic 1st class—basically nicer seats that are 4 in a row (2__2), ve 6 in a row, more legroom. The trouble is that the higher priced fares cost more than the lost seats, so they seem to subsidize economy. We flew 1st class on our recent trip to FL (wife's surgical society pays for everything for board members), and the seats were old school 1st class—bigger seats, better service. 2 seats each side instead of 3 in economy. So they lost 1/3 of the seats per row. I just checked, and those tickets were ~3.5X basic economy in cost, vs what they should be just for the lost seat (1.5X). (all RT prices) Somehow the airlines will need to rejigger seat pricing on slow planes I think. NYC to London is ~$750 economy right now, and ~$3500 business class (4.6X), 1st class is ~$5200 (6.9X). (difference between business and 1st class is weird these days, tbh, and premium economy is basically what 1st or business used to be back in the day in many ways). I'd think that the upper limit on a slow plane would have to be reasonably less than whatever a Boom flight charges on the same route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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