<story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herlitzj</author><text>afavour (via Benedict Evans) c. 2005&lt;p&gt;- No charging network, can&amp;#x27;t drive away from home&lt;p&gt;- Battery tech not there, no realistic range&lt;p&gt;- Too expensive, no one will pay that much for a car they can&amp;#x27;t drive anywhere&lt;p&gt;- Everyone wants an SUV or an affordable sedan, not some niche vehicle. Who&amp;#x27;s going go buy it?&lt;p&gt;Which ones has Tesla solved?&lt;p&gt;Moving an industry takes time. Will Boom do it? Who knows. But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don&amp;#x27;t you think?</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Problems with supersonic (?):&lt;p&gt;- Noise means you can&amp;#x27;t do US domestic&lt;p&gt;- Concorde didn&amp;#x27;t have the range for Pacific&lt;p&gt;- Costs didn&amp;#x27;t work for Atlantic routes&lt;p&gt;- And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route&lt;p&gt;Which ones has Boom solved?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;benedictevans&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1400425028022308874&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;benedictevans&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1400425028022308874&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iainmerrick</author><text>Tesla &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; at least partly solved some of those, no?&lt;p&gt;- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.&lt;p&gt;- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.&lt;p&gt;- Too expensive &amp;#x2F; everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.&lt;p&gt;So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.</text></comment>
<story><title>United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/united-will-buy-15-ultrafast-airplanes-from-start-up-boom-supersonic.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>herlitzj</author><text>afavour (via Benedict Evans) c. 2005&lt;p&gt;- No charging network, can&amp;#x27;t drive away from home&lt;p&gt;- Battery tech not there, no realistic range&lt;p&gt;- Too expensive, no one will pay that much for a car they can&amp;#x27;t drive anywhere&lt;p&gt;- Everyone wants an SUV or an affordable sedan, not some niche vehicle. Who&amp;#x27;s going go buy it?&lt;p&gt;Which ones has Tesla solved?&lt;p&gt;Moving an industry takes time. Will Boom do it? Who knows. But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don&amp;#x27;t you think?</text></item><item><author>afavour</author><text>Problems with supersonic (?):&lt;p&gt;- Noise means you can&amp;#x27;t do US domestic&lt;p&gt;- Concorde didn&amp;#x27;t have the range for Pacific&lt;p&gt;- Costs didn&amp;#x27;t work for Atlantic routes&lt;p&gt;- And airlines want lots of identical planes, not one special one for one route&lt;p&gt;Which ones has Boom solved?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;benedictevans&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1400425028022308874&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;benedictevans&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1400425028022308874&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MattGaiser</author><text>Tesla has built a charging network, done a lot of work on the battery&amp;#x2F;range, and built an electric SUV.&lt;p&gt;So I would say they have made at least solid progress on three of them.</text></comment>