Yahoo Finance A flight from New York to London in only 3 hours *might* be in our future
Listen up, Anglophiles, because we have some amazing news — a flight from New York to London in only three hours might be in our near future. Boom, a Denver-based aerospace start-up, plans to have a high-speed supersonic plane ready to take to the skies by 2023 — and it’ll get passengers across the pond in just three hours and fifteen minutes. This cuts travel time in half (for the reasonable fee of $5,000 per ticket, but we’ll worry about that later).
If all goes according to plan (including finding the aforementioned $5,000), it looks like we’ll spend more time going through security and customs than we will above the clouds, struggling to find a comfortable position to nap as we repeatedly check our watches and ask ourselves “are we there yet?”
Boom isn’t the only company looking to revolutionize air travel through high-speed flights — supersonic jets are in development at Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and startups like Aerion and Spike have followed Boom’s lead as they aim to build high-speed business jets.
“We’re getting better computers, getting better phones, and yet we’re still flying, basically, these 1960s airplane designs. We’ve made planes safer. We’ve made them more efficient. But we haven’t made it any easier to get around the planet,” Boom CEO Blake Scholl told New York Magazine.
Safety test flights are scheduled to begin in late 2017 — and, while we wait for the three-hour flights to become a reality, we’ll have time to focus on how we’ll finance our high-speed travel to London. Where there’s a will, there’s a way — and getting to London in three hours is the stuff of Anglophiles’ dreams.
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