Why is commercial air travel still the same speed it was 60 years ago? And will it ever change?
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Because breaking the sound barrier is difficult and eats up A LOT of fuel. There were a few attempts at supersonic airliners, but it turns out nobody really wants to pay 5 times the price to get to their destination twice as fast.
So now commercial airliners focus on efficiency, rather than speed.
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