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| Distance: | 18700 km | |
| Flight time: | 4.6 hours (under realistic air traffic control conditions) | |
| Reserve range: | 5000 km @ Mach 0.9 | |
| Payload | 300 passengers (plus baggage) |
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With such small wings relative to weight, I guess its takeoff/landing speed would need to be several times higher than that of current aircraft. Which would require unreasonable runway length, not available in any of existing or planned airports.
Instead of flying faster, it may make sense to make flying more comfortable and productive (e. g. onboard internet), so that it is not a waste of time to fly (business people would be the only customers of such an aircraft).
Posted by: Nikita | June 02, 2008 at 07:00 AM