This comes up periodically. The status does not seem to have changed in quite some time. They don't even have a scale prototype yet, much less anything like a full scale design. No place to build it, etc. At this point it's vaporware.
And people overestimate how much someone's willing to pay in exchange of time. Even if you save 4 hours of flight (which is only a portion of the equation), you'd have to value your free time at least at $50/hour to pay even just $200 more. Some will, most won't. Europe is dominated by low cost airlines so I don't see the market for their product.
>"Either we fail or we change the world,"
Well this isn't a selfie filter, if you fail you kill lots of people.
> Well this isn't a selfie filter, if you fail you kill lots of people.
I was under the impression that by "fail" they meant "fail to create economical supersonic flight". While sending passengers to their deaths in an unsafe aircraft would also be a type of failure, I don't think that's what was implied here.
An aspiration that is very, very hard to realize.