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Originally Posted by initiald
This was one of Boeing's concepts before they decided on the 787 design. I think the reasoning they scrapped it was that even though it would make flights something like 15% quicker airlines wanted the better fuel economy and range of 787.
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that's cool, it's got a SR-71 blackbird kind of vibe to it.
it seems like fuel economy is going to trump speed for the foreseeable future, at least until there is some breakthrough in propulsion.