Ed Perkins on Travel: Will supersonic travel return? Should you care?

Ed Perkins, Tribune Content Agency You may have seen some news about the progress of the Boom Supersonic Transport demonstrator, and that news raises the obvious questions, will supersonic travel return? Should you care? The short answers are"Probably yes" and"Probably no." If that's all you care to know, you can go right to the sports or cooking pages or sites. Read on for more detail.

In support of its development, Boom built a smaller scale model that is currently flying. So far, all flights have been subsonic, but brief tests above Mach 1 are planned soon. Boom has already obtained permission to fly faster than Mach 1 over an isolated corridor in Nevada. From a technical standpoint, everything is so far going to plan, and Boom has signed a few dozen orders from major airlines.

The clock imposes its own weird limits. Feasible ranges, with flights less than five hours, are too short for overnight flights. And adding a five- or six-hour time change to local departure time means a daytime eastbound transatlantic or transpacific flight takes a full day off the clock. Westbound is easier, where you arrive at an earlier clock time than when you departed.

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