Will nasa's supersonic planes change the way we travel in 2021?
If all goes well will airlines have to cancel their subsonic planes order due to supersonic planes
Will supersonic passenger airplanes mean 787 dreamliner or airbus a350 go out of production due to supersonic flight
Will supersonic passenger airplanes mean widebody airplane be out of business will the airline industry no longer fly subsonic planes
Pros and cons
Concorde did not replace the subsonic flights, and Concorde is no more. Concorde just gave a faster, and more expensive alternative. A new generation of supersonic planes would just do the same.
No, DUMMY… Supersonic airplanes will not replace all others in the next three years. For one thing, with certain exceptions for military aircraft, it is ILLEGAL to fly ANY aircraft faster than the speed of sound above the Continental United States. And there are THOUSANDS of flights every day that pass over the USA. Why would ANY airline buy an aircraft that is capable of supersonic flight if they can't use it?
From the moment an aircraft project launches until first flight, there's usually 4 to 5 year. From first flight to certification and entry in service, there's an additional 2 years.
In the case of Concorde, since it was a supersonic aircraft and a lot of the technology had to be developed as opposed to being able to scale off an existing aircraft, the project launch was in the early 1960's, assembly of first prototype began in February 1965, first flight was in 1969 and entry in service in 1976. Can you do the math?
If a supersonic project started now, with the financing and design effort initiated, the first aircraft would be in service in 2028. At the earliest.
And no, a supersonic would not replace subsonic. A supersonic will be selling for several times the price of a subsonic of comparable range and capacity, and consume several times more fuel. That means the price of the ticket would be several times more than what they presently are.
But the point is that a supersonic aircraft that flies twice or three times as fast as a subsonic plane would sell half or one third as many as a subsonic airplane, since it could do two or three flights when the subsonic does only one. With a market 1/3 the size, the development cost would have to be amortized on a smaller production run, which means each plane would cost even more. And that is assuming that ALL subsonic are replaces, which would never happen in the first place. If you need to fly frequently from New York to London, and there's a supersonic with ticket at $4000 and a subsonic at $800, you may fly one in a while just for kicks, but most of the time you'd fly on the cheaper plane.
Plus, on a flight that now takes 6 hours plus 2 hours for security screening and boarding madness, and 2 hours to get your luggage and clear custom, New York to London is already a 10 hours journey. Make that a supersonic that reduces the time to 3 hours flight, and you still have those 2 hours at each ends, meaning you went from 10 hours to 7. Big frigging deal, for $3000 extra.
For the record, most of the spending in designing and building a plane is before entry in service. That means a huge investment up front that needs financing. Banks would not lend the money unless airlines commit. And airlines will not commit unless passengers commit. So, you and everyone else who wants supersonic travel kindly send a check for $10000 to either Boeing or Airbus, to show how committed you are. C'mon, that will be refunded as a $1000 discount on your first 10 supersonic flights…
Airlines are in business to make money. Speed is expensive. It takes more energy to go faster. Even if you have, in some way, suspended the physics that cause a damaging high pressure wave off the front of a supersonic object, the fuel cost alone makes a supersonic transport plane a financial liability. Comfort, quiet, and economical, outsells speed.
No, not even in the next 25 years.
Only when congress repeals the laws of physics.
While NASA may overcome the sonic boom problem there's still a little matter of fuel efficiency. To go fast you need lots of fuel, That may be OK when oil is $40 ber barrel, but not when it's $70 barrel.
No, no and no.
No, because they're research aircraft and what they learn from them will take a while for industry to apply to new aircraft.
- If companies stopped making supersonic planes like the concorde because it was too noisy expensive why are they bringing them back? Companies like nasa lockheed martin are working on supersonic air travel And colorado company boom is developing a 55 seater plane So if companies are working on supersonic travel does that mean airlines will have to cancel their boeing 787 dreamliner or airbus A350 orders or any widebody orders due to supersonic travel
- How do airlines choose which planes to travel with? Like from Toronto to Cuba I took Sunwing boeing 737, but when I went again using Air Canada they used an Airbus A319. How do they decide? Like why wouldn't they use a boeing 747?
- Can Air Koryo join One World if North Korea and South Korea get united and Air Koryo buys more Airbus or Boeing planes? Korea already has Star Alliance (Asiana) and Skyteam (Korean Air) airlines. If Kim jong un dies and these two Korea become one Korea, can Air Koryo join One World after buying more newer planes like the A320 or 737?
- Will Japan airlines cancel replace their subsonic planes with order of boom supersonic planes? According to the article https://www.google.com/...SKBN1DZ1N2 Will Japan airlines cancel their boeing and Airbus widebody aircraft due to boom supersonic start up company Will people stop using widebody aircraft like boeing and Airbus and narrowbody airplanes like boeing 737 airbus a320 due to supersonic electric planes