Plenty of people wish they could travel more, but usually a combination of time and money prevent them from doing so. Luckily, there is a new airline that is hoping to solve both of those problems.
Boom Supersonic recently unveiled their first demonstrator aircraft, as they've set an ambitious goal of being able to fly "anywhere in the world in four hours for just $100," CNN Travel reports.
Supersonic air travel has been a dream of the aviation industry following the demise of the Concorde in 2003, but due to exorbitant costs, the dream has been hard to attain.
However, a few new startups have sparked interest in supersonic and hypersonic projects once again, and now one of those companies is starting to show real potential that travelers can get excited about.
“Either we fail or we change the world,” Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl told the outlet. "That barrier of time is what keeps us apart. We believe it's deeply important to break the time barrier, more so than the sound barrier."
As far as traveling anywhere in four hours fro $100, it won't happen overnight. "Now it's going to take us time to get there," Scholl added.
Estimates predict it could take "two or three generations of technology, development and breakthrough" to reach the lofty goal.
The new aircraft, called Overture, is designed to seat between 65 and 88 people, and will focus on over 500 primarily transoceanic routes.
A journey from New York to London would potentially take only three hours and 15 minutes, and a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney would be cut down to eight and a half hours.
The company hopes their Mach 2.2 commercial airliner, which is twice as fast as current commercial planes, will begin flying people around the globe by 2026.
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Industry experts believe Boom Supersonic's goals are bold but feasible.
"It's an audacious goal!" said Professor Sean O'Keefe, an aviation expert at Syracuse University. "And sometimes that's what it takes: to get somebody who really believes in their capacity to do something like this, to actually make it come to be."
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