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I think their sights are set on military contracts (I believe they already have some military funding) and commercial aviation is a way to fund the development.

• jjk166 2y ago
  Seems a little silly, the military is exempt from the regulatory burden they're spending a fortune to work around and has extremely deep pockets. It would be much easier to start with military contracts and establish everything they need to make supersonic planes and then transition that to civilian supersonic planes then to try and do everything and then some with no revenue and an unproven business plan.
• mrguyorama 2y ago
  Military supersonics just aren't that important. We don't have Mach 3+ planes anymore not because we forgot or some nonsense, but because the things we used them for we now use space for: Need to spy on someone? The USSR is less happy to shoot a satellite out of the sky (this will change soon) than Mr. Powers in a plane. Want to nuke someone in a few minutes? ICBMs are mature technology. So what are they supposedly offering the military?
  • mulmen 2y ago
    Powers was shot down in a subsonic U2. The mach 3+ Blackbird family never overflew Russia.
• notahacker 2y ago
  It would make a lot more sense to do that the other way round...