Name: 联合航空押注超音速飞行面临财务、技术障碍（United Airlines’ Bet on Supersonic Flight Faces Financial, Tech Hurdles | WSJ）
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wants to bring back supersonic air travel

The airline says it plans to buy 15 Overture jets

from the start-up aerospace company Boom Supersonic.

Boom hopes to fly a scaled-down prototype later this year,

So what does this mean for the future of supersonic travel?

- United's announcement isn't a game changer

We've had pretend orders, almost real orders before.

The proof is when United actually spends money.

"United has agreed to purchase 15 Overture aircraft

including nonrefundable upfront payments."

In a statement to the "Wall Street Journal,"

we can confirm that we have made a deposit

as well as the aircraft they are building."

the most prominent of which include Boom, Aerion, and Spike,

the next generation of commercial supersonic jets.

faster than the speed of sound and do it safely

- Really, this is just a question of funding.

It's probably gonna cost well over $20 billion

to develop a supersonic jet, to say nothing

of the cost of actually building it and buying it.

folded after was unable to raise enough money

to produce a planned supersonic business jet.

A 3 1/2 hour Concorde flight between New York and London

cost as much as $10,000 in the year 2000.

they would likely be more expensive than a typical flight.

- There are really two very distinct markets.

The corporate market, the business jet market,

They don't really care how much they pay for travel,

whereas a scheduled air transport, the jetliner business,

the airliner business, they are typically used

Obviously that market is a bit more sensitive to price.

- [Narrator] Today, business travelers have come to expect

a certain level of luxury on their subsonic flights.

Given the smaller size of the supersonic planes,

that same experience may be hard to duplicate.

The airline said it believes there will be ample appetite

for supersonic trips from business travelers

"Boom is designing Overture to be profitable

at fares comparable to today's subsonic business class,

thanks in large part to a 75% reduction in operating costs

Technological hurdles have hampered development.

- There was a reason Concorde had 100 seats.

If they could have made it bigger with the materials

available at that time and the engines available

So designers now have new materials, new engines,

- [Narrator] Perhaps the biggest technological problem

- NASA has kind of led the research in the US,

and has a test program going on right now.

And what their researchers say that the modeling shows,

instead of a boom that can break windows,

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