• Nurgus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.

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      3 months ago

      Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. . .

      The concorde took 180 minutes (3 hours) to travel from New York to London (3,000 nautical miles).

      Ignoring range limits, a trip from New York to Tokyo (5,861 nautical miles) at that speed would take 351 minutes (5.8 hours).