Why don they build faster passenger aeroplanes?
The speed of sound is an expensive barrier to cross. Current airliners fly slightly slower than the speed of sound. Flying faster raises fuel costs dramatically and introduces other technical issues that tend to be expensive and difficult to deal with. Supersonic flight is also banned over most countries because of objections to sonic booms (booming noises made by the shock waves created when an airplane flies faster than sound). A supersonic aircraft isn’t of much use if it can only be flown supersonically over water. These two factors insured that the Concorde never advanced beyond anything but a novelty for the rich. We have the technology to substantially exceed the speed of sound in the air, but we cannot currently do it economically or quietly. Additionally, people are more interested in cheap flights than fast flights. Air travel is already much faster than anything else, so it’s “fast enough” for most people, especially since going any faster would raise ticket prices significa
