{"id":75615,"date":"2018-01-28T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/supersonic-air-travel-just-took-another-big-step-toward-rebirth"},"modified":"2018-01-28T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:02:37","slug":"supersonic-air-travel-just-took-another-big-step-toward-rebirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/supersonic-air-travel-just-took-another-big-step-toward-rebirth","title":{"rendered":"Supersonic air travel just took another big step toward rebirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supersonic-air-travel-just-took-another-big-step-toward-rebirth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>SUPERSONIC FLIGHT\u2019S ROCKY PAST<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We are one step closer to an affordable reboot of <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-bringing-supersonic-passenger-planes-back-promises-high\/\" target=\"_blank\">supersonic flight<\/a>. Japan Airlines (JAL) has invested $10 million in the Denver-based aerospace company, <a href=\"https:\/\/boomsupersonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boom Supersonic<\/a>, that\u2019s planning to resurrect the method of travel. In exchange for their funding, JAL will be able to pre-order 20 of the new aircraft. The airline\u2019s president, Yoshiharu Ueki, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/boomsupersonic.com\/jal-press-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">a press release<\/a> from December 5: \u201cThrough this partnership, we hope to contribute to the future of supersonic flight with the intent of providing more time to our valued passengers while emphasizing flight safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 14 years since British Airways and Air France <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/we-are-entering-a-renaissance-in-hypersonic-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">grounded their Concorde fleets<\/a>, and commercial air travel hasn\u2019t hit supersonic speeds since. Fourteen of these planes ferried first-class passengers from New York to London at speeds of 1,353 mph (2177.44 kph) \u2014 twice as fast as the speed of sound \u2014 making the jaunt across the pond in only 3.5 hours. That\u2019s about half the time it takes a normal passenger plane to cross the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/supersonic-air-travel-just-took-another-big-step-toward-its-ncna828431?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_mc\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/supersonic-air-travel-j...d_nn_fb_mc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERSONIC FLIGHT\u2019S ROCKY PAST We are one step closer to an affordable reboot of supersonic flight. Japan Airlines (JAL) has invested $10 million in the Denver-based aerospace company, Boom Supersonic, that\u2019s planning to resurrect the method of travel. In exchange for their funding, JAL will be able to pre-order 20 of the new aircraft. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}