每日邮报：携程投资美国超音速飞机制造商Boom Supersonic，为14亿中国人带来超音速飞行

 China's leading online travel agency wants to bring supersonic flights to the country's 1.4 billion population.

携程战略投资美国超音速飞机制造商，为中国14亿人口带来超音速飞行

Ctrip has announced on Thursday an investment in US based supersonic airplane developer Supersonic Boom that will help build its commercial aircraft.

The airplane developer is currently building a supersonic airliner capable of carrying 55 passengers at Mach 2.2, which is equivalent to the speed of 1,451mph (2,335 km/h).

Boom boasts that this could cut travel time in half, meaning that a flight from Shanghai to Los Angeles would shrink to just over six hours, instead of the current 12-hour flight time.

The Boom airliner is expected enter service in the mid-2020s.

携程今日宣布与美国超音速飞机制造商Boom Supersonic达成战略投资，助力Boom加速2.2马赫超音速客机的研发。

Boom Supersonic目前正在研发的55座超音速飞机飞行时速为2.2马赫（约合2333千米/时），比普通客机快出一倍多，机票价格却与同航线的商务舱持平。客机预计于2020年中期进行首飞，届时从上海飞往洛杉矶将从现在的12小时缩短到6小时。

英国每日邮报网友评论：

BitterInTN, Knoxville, United States, 12 hours ago

So, re-inventing the wheel?
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要重新发明轮子

 

Logan44, High Wycombe, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

If memory serves me correctly didnt the UK & France do this with Concorde, so it is not a new idea then.
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没记错的话，英国和法国以前就推出协和式超音速喷射客机。超音速客机并非头一回听说

【协和式飞机（Concorde）是一种由法国宇航和英国飞机公司联合研制的中程超音速客机，它和苏联图波列夫设计局的图-144同为世界上少数曾投入商业使用的超音速客机】

 

Size8, Mesa, United States, 10 hours ago

And it will not improve on the Concorde, the best looking plane ever
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最好看的飞机

 

brian50, alora, Spain, 12 hours ago

BIN THERE. DONE THAT, WE CALLED IT CONCORD,
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以前就有了，我们称之为协和超音速喷射客机

 

JDRoest, Mobile, United States, 12 hours ago

If there was money in these routes to be made, Boeing would have built it long before now. You don¿t really think the aircraft companies don't talk to their customers constantly?
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这些航线要是能赚钱，波音早就造出来了，还等你们？

难道你以为波音公司不对客户进行调查吗？

 

EU Free UK, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 12 hours ago

I wouldn't trust any Chinese investment, as technology has a habit of going missing and turning up back in China !
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中国投资靠不住，技术差，给你玩消失是常态。

 

Shelley, Stranraer, 10 hours ago

If they need any tips they know who to ask!
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要帮忙的话，他们知道要找谁

 

yorkieboy1944, Bradford, United Kingdom, 9 hours ago

Perhaps we should do with this aircraft what the Americans did to stop the success of Concord and refuse landing righrs and cause as many problems as possible.
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美国人以前就给协和客机设置各种障碍，不希望看到协和客机的成功，比如不让协和客机降落美国等，给其制造了各种不便。

 

Galahad, The Meadows, United States, 8 hours ago

The US banned the plane from going supersonic over the US. So did quite a few other countries. But go ahead and ban it from Britain. I doubt that will affect its flights over the Pacific.
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美国禁止超音速客机飞入美国，很多国家也有同样的禁令。