From NY to Lindon in one hour.

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  1. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

  2. Asymptote

    Asymptote Active Member

    Utah? That’s pretty good.
     
  3. Vonnegut

    Vonnegut Well-Known Member

    Will be interesting to see what progress occurs and if their self-admitted transition challenge is why the big players in this field haven’t done so already. Looks like they’re initially well funded and with some ambitious young engineers with the right backgrounds. Wish them luck and hope that their tech progresses. Even in bootstrap mode, they have an ambitious goal that could exhaust far larger startup capital funding.
     
  4. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    Something that I would love to be a part of.
    But I'm nearing retirement.
     
  5. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Yeh, I worked with a young woman who paid for and took a "tourist" out and back in the Concorde. Note that the Concorde no longer flies. When I was a very small lad, Boeing proposed the SST, SuperSponic Transport. It died a'bornin'. Too expensive to build and fly. Can't fly over land because of the sonic booms.

    My point is, all of this has been done before and no one has ever made the money work. No one ever will. Governments can subsidize the living daylights out of supersonic transport but that quickly looks to the average citizen like what it is; taxes subsidizing the pleasure and convenience of the wealthy. Done, in fact, a half-century ago!

    It's like fusion power. Nifty-keeno tech that will never pan out. Every engineer is supposed to learn something about economics and accounting but you sure wouldn't know it when you see projects like this.
     
  6. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Perhaps... and yet I'm reminded of Shaw's adage about progress depending on the unreasonable man.
     
  7. chrisjm18

    chrisjm18 Well-Known Member

    Where's Lindon located?
     
  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

  9. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Uber die strasse. Naturlich.
     
  10. Lerner

    Lerner Well-Known Member

    Indeed a typo I made.
    How to I salvage this?

    The UK one :)

    Linden last name from places called Lindon in Lincolnshire, Linden End, etc
     

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