Designers Unveil 4,000mph Passenger Jet
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Real replacement for Concorde
What do you think is the real replacement of Concorde?
BA bought two A318 planes and will in 2009 equip them with 32 business class flat beds - 8 rows of 4 abreast. They are going to fly London City - somewhere in Ireland - New York.
32 seats per frame. Concorde had 100 seats per frame - one obvious problem was that 100 seats above first are impossible to sell.
Maybe it always was the trouble with Concorde that Concorde is too big?
Lapcat claims
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/lapcat_veh.html
that
Er... yeah. Widely made claim, but suspicious nevertheless. Maybe one should start designing a supersonic vehicle for 32 passengers?
BA bought two A318 planes and will in 2009 equip them with 32 business class flat beds - 8 rows of 4 abreast. They are going to fly London City - somewhere in Ireland - New York.
32 seats per frame. Concorde had 100 seats per frame - one obvious problem was that 100 seats above first are impossible to sell.
Maybe it always was the trouble with Concorde that Concorde is too big?
Lapcat claims
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/lapcat_veh.html
that
The vehicle is sized to carry 300 passengers since this is typical of future supersonic transport designs and thought to be the minimum to achieve a competitive seat/mile cost.
