Why have airline travel times not decreased over the decades?
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It will one day get faster, when we have such a great battery that can fit into an airplane while supplying fuck ton of electric energy to the engines. Oh and the energy must be nearly free, it must come from a country sized solar panels. But it is quite far from today, maybe not in our lifetime (though i very wish it comes earlier)
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Supersonic travel typically requires a far higher fuel consumption per passenger-mile traveled making kt VERY VERY VERY Expensive fuel wise, and supersonic aircraft designs tend to be especially inefficient when not traveling supersonic, which is a problem given that many governments don’t want supersonic travel above populated land due to noise concerns.
As such there’s little demand for supersonic passenger travel, and only one company even trying to make a modern supersonic jet possible.
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