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Supersonic Flight Is Making a Comeback With These Planes
It’s been nearly two decades since the Concorde ushered in commercial supersonic flight. A handful of companies are looking to bring back high-speed travel. 0:00 – Concorde Pioneered Supersonic Flight 0:47 – Concorde’s Speed, Cabin and Ticket Price 1:52 – Concorde’s Sonic Boom Problem 3:00 – Concorde Crash July 25, 2000 3:49 – United Airlines’…
Specter7 All hail the dn
June 9, 2022 at 12:07 pm
They didn’t pioneer it…
VoidRaven
June 9, 2022 at 2:07 pm
They should probably have specified that it pioneered supersonic passenger flights, rather than any supersonic flight
Quantum Science Worker
June 9, 2022 at 3:20 pm
Tu-144?
Kevin02 Mulder
June 9, 2022 at 12:08 pm
Wont be allowed to fly over certain country’s because of the sonic boom. Its bad for birds and wild life and complaining citizens 🙂 not even to mention climate change 😒
Gammermonk
June 9, 2022 at 12:11 pm
only for rich people or countries to fly and they will blame poor/developing countries for pollution.
Philip
June 9, 2022 at 12:12 pm
SpaceX? 30 minutes around the world?
Also the Concorde was old and people realised they could spend half the amount and fly first class overnight in a bed and wake up in NY or London.
ItzEagleT
June 9, 2022 at 1:05 pm
finally
iAmDickel
June 9, 2022 at 1:23 pm
people really need to innovate faster, we can’t travel to the space if restrictions are everywhere
Sudipto Kumar
June 9, 2022 at 3:14 pm
America is such a beautiful country, first they destroy the supersonic industry by banning supersonic flight and now they are American companies are staring supersonic industry
John Marston
June 9, 2022 at 3:29 pm
More content like this please, I really enjoyed it
Mireaze
June 9, 2022 at 3:41 pm
Gotta go fast!
Ian Weetman
June 9, 2022 at 4:05 pm
I really hope Overture can pull this off. While we need hydrogen/electric aircraft MORE we still need these flagship programs to inspire innovation and bring hope to an industry that has become increasingly stagnant under Airbus and Boeing…
Rich V
June 9, 2022 at 4:23 pm
It’s great they want to take on the technical challenges of making the sonic booms quieter but the fact remains they are not going to be commercially viable due to limited capacity and the high cost of the development and operations.
F Bart UltraMAGA
June 9, 2022 at 4:29 pm
I remember being school when the windows would rattle from the Sonic Booms. I thought it was cool!
Be Low Below
June 9, 2022 at 5:38 pm
A waste of attention, money and time
baylor4life
June 9, 2022 at 8:04 pm
Not with these gas prices
Carlos Arriaga
June 9, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Make them electric just like electric cars?
baylor4life
June 10, 2022 at 12:18 am
@Carlos Arriaga bruh
wild reed
June 9, 2022 at 8:49 pm
As recently as the year 2000, 109 passengers are still dying in a plane crash as a result of simply running over a piece of metal on the runway….now you wanna go faster by compromising pilots having a window view of what’s in front of them, using cameras instead…..humans aren’t as smart as we claim to be …..
GE90man
June 9, 2022 at 10:20 pm
Do you work in the aviation industry?
wild reed
June 9, 2022 at 10:27 pm
@GE90man No, why? If you are going to suggest that plane crashes are rare, they aren’t rare enough. And moreover, the odds of surviving one are more important than the odds of being involved in one…
GE90man
June 9, 2022 at 10:33 pm
@wild reed The video is quite misleading. Concorde didn’t crash simply by running over a metal strip. There were many factors. You probably won’t listen to anyone who tells you that flying part 121 airline operations is extremely safe, so I won’t tell you that again.
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 10:06 pm
To be fair here, the Concorde crash could be blamed on design failure. It was more a problem of engine placement. I am sure that such things could be improved in modern SST design.
Tang0Fox1
June 9, 2022 at 10:40 pm
Ummm…have you forgotten about the weekly flight to Barbados?
GoGreenAndGameOn
June 9, 2022 at 11:55 pm
I’m curious about these sonic booms. I’m sure they happened, but every time I ever looked up to watch a Concord fly over in the 90’s, it never seemed to occur. But maybe it was just going slow over London.
Steven Dai
June 11, 2022 at 1:24 am
I believe there are regulations banning supersonic flight overland in most countries after testing in the 70s and 80s. All supersonic commercial aircraft concepts I am aware of all intend to fly further than Concorde mainly to expand service to trans-pacific than just trans – Atlantic.
SwEatShIrT_WZRD
June 10, 2022 at 12:17 am
If the plane manufacturer is in the US government’s pocket like Boeing, I’ll never take the flight. I value my life over crony corporate profits
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 10:08 pm
Actually, I think Boeing saw that the SST would not be profitable and they could only have sold a handful of them. I suspect that economic analysis showed them that SSTs are not the way to go. It took a decade but their analyses proved correct.
vike fon
June 10, 2022 at 12:55 am
do the SAME
and
expect DIFFERENT results.
Brilliant !!
Nayre
June 10, 2022 at 2:27 am
though with current prices of fuels, the future looks grim
Faisal Ashraf Gujrat
June 10, 2022 at 2:38 am
Welcome
luke skywalker
June 10, 2022 at 3:02 am
What about starship point to point? It could be fully completed and human rated before the next super sonic plane is complete… anywhere on earth in 45 min
Aragorn841
June 10, 2022 at 3:24 am
Even more expensive. Elon is working on it with Starship, but that’s even farther off.
MrFujinko
June 10, 2022 at 3:50 am
Suppose you live in New York. Do you rather pay 600 dollars to fly to London in ~7 hours. Or pay 12000 dollars to shorten the trip to 45 minutes?
And don’t believe anyone that tells you “but in the future it will become cheaper”. In this future flying will be even cheaper. It is a fundamental difference, rockets use much more energy.
MrFujinko
June 10, 2022 at 3:51 am
The only people whose time is worth thousands of dollars an hour is the 0.01%.
luke skywalker
June 10, 2022 at 11:26 am
@MrFujinko i am cheap $600 flight it is
luke skywalker
June 10, 2022 at 11:33 am
@MrFujinko note that if the fuel is cheap enough you can get more flights/day with your craft and pay it off sooner. More enticing business plan
Nigel Benn
June 10, 2022 at 5:10 am
I recall a video just like this saying the same thing about 2 years ago, another one before that 5 years ago, another one celebrating Concorde 40th birthday 13 years ago. You can keep making documentaries about it America but at some point you actually have to Design, manufacture and perfect supersonic travel for more than a handful of pilots in a cockpit. So………… get on with it.
Car Lover Photography
June 12, 2022 at 12:13 am
Yeah, this is getting old. It’s starting to feel like another one of those “nuclear fusion” or “alternative fuel source” Ideas. But just like those, they clearly have some serious obstacles to overcome.
venom5809
June 10, 2022 at 6:26 am
Flew on the Concorde when I was a kid, my best friend’s dad was a British Airways VP, it was awesome.
David boyd
June 12, 2022 at 11:07 am
What was the experience like.
kernsstrawberrynectar
June 10, 2022 at 7:15 am
The concord returns
Eric Ling
June 10, 2022 at 7:19 am
Yes, you were thinking about Guile… sonic boom!
dro dro
June 10, 2022 at 7:23 am
tbh in a world where people wanna get to places faster and faster they should remove the ban and bring the supersonic flights back
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 10:03 pm
See my comment above to 1Mateø. On SSTs you spend a lot for ticket for only a minimal improvement in wanting to get to your destination. Frankly, instead of spending thousands on an SST ticket, I would buy a first class ticket on regular commercial jet flights. Yes, it takes perhaps double the time to get there, but at least I am comfortable in First Class.
Miles Croft
June 10, 2022 at 7:40 am
Tinie Tempah might still get his chance!
YouAndImpact
June 10, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Great video
1Mateø
June 10, 2022 at 7:03 pm
We don’t need to travel faster than the speed of sound if we’re going to be packed into planes like sardines.
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 10:00 pm
Here’s the thing. Even for business purposes, say you would like to get to a destination instantaneously. But you are hampered by the time zones! Say you want to fly from New York City to London, there is a 5hr difference. So even if you left at say 7am it would be already afternoon in London. Now throw in travel to your local airport and then travel from you London airport to some location in London. This is instantaneous travel. Throw in the SST travel time of say 3hours and in reality you are already late in the evening. Works a bit better for travelers from the West Coast to points in Asia.
1Mateø
June 10, 2022 at 10:17 pm
@John Wekell I see where your going with this but Instantaneous travel only exist in the movies and our imaginations. My question is do we have a global government for this SST travel anywhere to happen 🤔
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 10:24 pm
@1Mateø My real point here is that speed alone will not be a selling point in the LONG RUN. This is what did in the Concorde. SSTs are expensive to develop and build. Of necessity, airline who buy them must charge more for a ticket. Ultimately, once you get past the romantics and adventure types, what is that extra cost buying me. The problem is that time zones don’t help here. As I said below, instead of buying an SST ticket why not just buy a First Class ticket (which tend to be competitively priced) and just accept the longer flight time but at least you are doing it in comfort.
greg morrison
June 10, 2022 at 7:24 pm
I think I recall that the real push for the regulations preventing overland supersonic flights came from the US aircraft manufacturers themselves. Standard trick for large companies to have the government regulate your competitors away.
Peter Walker
June 10, 2022 at 7:42 pm
You know it’s funny when the concord was first built everyone was elated, everyone but the US. It was said and I believe it to be true, that the US were jealous because they weren’t involved in the plane and it’s why it was so restricted when it came to the US. Now they are all excited about it because some of the major plane manufacturers there, in the US, are looking at it. If the concord didn’t get so much of a fight when it was first introduced and operating, over 30 years ago, supersonic flight would’ve been a everyday thing today…….
John Wekell
June 10, 2022 at 9:54 pm
I hate to rain on your parade of cheering on supersonic transportation, but here’s the thing with SSTs: they are costly and the ticket on them are very expensive. Yes, you will get some customers that have the bucks so that they can get to their destinations in half the time. For the average flyer, that convenience is a bit too expensive. When Concorde first flew, there was high demand for a new thing. But eventually the high cost caused ticket sales to drop. In point of fact, Concorde was losing money the few years before they ceased operation.
cbody70
June 11, 2022 at 1:49 am
Check out the Venus Aerospace hypersonic plane concept using existing rocket technology to achieve Mach 9. The 51 Km cruising height and the lack of air virtually eliminates the sonic booms.
Anthony Xuereb
June 11, 2022 at 2:11 am
Don’t bother making it if it can’t fly over land, it’s like having one arm tied behind your back.
Thomas John
June 11, 2022 at 7:57 am
isn’t the sonic boom problem BS ? The Concorde wasn’t flying over the speed of sound at low altitude lol
iQ- Ride
June 11, 2022 at 12:06 pm
Way to go CNET. Story about breaking the Sound Barrier while breaking Hijab Barier.
Anthony Lee
June 11, 2022 at 3:11 pm
How’s is it gonna come back the fuel is now higher then it ever was before that’s mostly the reason why it went under in the first place back then it was way too expensive and now the whole world is goin into a recession so who can even afford to travel that way honesty I think they should wait till fuel goes back down and everything becomes back to normal again
Paul Ho
June 11, 2022 at 6:13 pm
Whoa, cool and unexpected to see Kent taking on a new aviation beat.
nashbeuh
June 12, 2022 at 12:04 am
Such a pleasure to hear a female voice on this kind of subject. The sound in the end is out of phase though.
Turceno, Arthur Jamil
June 12, 2022 at 12:17 am
well NASA and Lockheed can pull it of faster than the other mentioned company, for sure in less than a decade we’ll have a working prototype or in service supersonic passenger jet from Lockheed and NASA
Brad Hesse
June 12, 2022 at 2:45 am
That Lockheed supersonic jet which doesn’t even have a cockpit window makes me wonder….you are just one bad solar flare or EMP from certain death when it fries all of the electronics onboard and the pilots lose the ability to see, and the flight computer stops working. I guess most modern jets probably suffer the same problem since they also rely on computers to stay airborne
Dan S
June 14, 2022 at 4:37 am
Isolated electronic systems can be hardened against EMP events. FYI.
Cesar Trujillo
June 13, 2022 at 3:03 pm
Wow. The audio voice over didn’t match the end of the video.
Woke Fools
June 13, 2022 at 6:46 pm
We took a big step backwards when liberals killed the Concorde
Dr Weirdgloves
June 13, 2022 at 9:59 pm
Will never happen, there is ZERO need for supersonic flight
Wayne Palmar
June 13, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Supersonic jets vs SpaceX
Dave Adams
June 14, 2022 at 4:38 am
Who wrote the script for this video? Lots of incorrect facts
Dan S
June 14, 2022 at 4:38 am
No mention of SpaceX’s plans for on planet long distance transportation with Starship? Why?
Max’s Aviation
June 14, 2022 at 4:08 pm
Come on why does the worst airline have to order the boom overture?
LyuboA
June 15, 2022 at 12:13 am
why do you even need planes didnt you ppl said that The HyperLoop will make them all obsolete 😂
sahlioa
June 15, 2022 at 7:31 pm
Concord is a proper noun so you shouldn’t use “the” before it. It is simply Concord.
ideaynojodas
June 15, 2022 at 10:56 pm
I’m super excited about this!
Dave
June 15, 2022 at 11:13 pm
Ummm yeah …. what’s it gonna be an electric plane….lol