Jet engine technology, noise regulations and the shortage of clean and alternative aviation fuel will make it difficult for airlines to get government approvals on aircraft and keep ticket prices low, critics said.
When British Airways flew its supersonic Concorde jet for the last time nearly 20 years ago, the era of shuttling between New York and London in under four hours while indulging in champagne, caviar and lobster seemed to be gone forever.
Meanwhile, technical challenges remain. Bold corporate claims of bringing back supersonic travel will run headlong into scientific challenges for years to come, they added. The jet's engines also were noisy, drawing anger from residents that lived near airports with Concorde jets. And in 2000, an Air France Concorde flight from Paris to New York burst into flames, crashing into a hotel shortly after takeoff and killing 113 people, creating an image problem that was hard to recover from.
Blake Scholl, the chief executive of Boom Technology, a Denver-based company founded in 2016, said his company hopes to have a supersonic jet, called the Overture, in the skies by 2029. Later this year, the company will break ground on its production facility in South Carolina. "You've got this convergence of technology," he said, "that will allow us to make economic and profitable something that was not economic and profitable with the old technology."
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