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Please don't let COVID-19 kill this thing. They're going to need a lot of money to build the full-size plane and it's going to be hard to get it if airlines are cancelling orders and not placing any new ones for planes: https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/wordpress/2020/05/19/a...

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OTOH if flying becomes more rare, then the only demand left will be from people with deep pockets. Maybe the only way there is a market for supersonic jets is if all the other long haul routes go bankrupt.

And the people with really deep pockets already have a jet. ;-)

I know you're half-joking but it is still often missed in these discussions that private flight (whether owning a jet or something like NetJets) is an existing competitor. And I assume that many wealthier people would rather fly private (for a variety of reasons) than commercial, even if the commercial jet is faster and/or has longer range.

Even then, the Cessna might not have the juice to get to Tokyo nonstop.

A Gulfstream does

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