From New York to London in 3.5 hours: Virgin will launch a supersonic plane

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Virgin Supersonic intends to launch several international flights on supersonic aircraft, which will significantly shorten the flight time.

For example, a flight from Los Angeles to Sydney (Australia) will take only 6 hours instead of 13, which take to overcome this distance from conventional aircraft, and the flight from New York to London (United Kingdom) takes 3,5 hours, reports Time-out.

The aircraft that will operate these flights is the XB1 from Boom Supersonic, which is capable of speeds of up to 2700 km per hour, while the speed of most aircraft used in civil aviation is limited to 900 km per hour.

But tickets for such flights will not be cheap. A flight Los Angeles - Sydney - Los Angeles will cost from $7 thousand, which is 7 times more than the average cost of a flight in this direction on a regular plane.

For this money you will receive one of the 45 seats in the aircraft, they all belong to the business class, the seats are placed one on each side, so you will not have to choose between the window and the aisle.

Test flights will be operated on 2017, but regular commercial flights will be launched on XB1 not earlier than 2023.

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