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And of course, if you leave NYC after breakfast and head to Tokio you won't get there by lunch

More likely you'll get there for dinner and a night out

At Mach 5 this will take 2h (not considering acceleration/deceleration times)

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Then standing in line for two hours at security will be even more ironic.

Anyone who can afford this ride will be part of a paid Get Out of Grope program.

Does this happen anymore? I flew out of Boston the day before Thanksgiving (when I would imagine tons of people are traveling) and it took <5 minutes to get through security. Same thing on the way back.

One data point doesn't mean anything... It's the uncertainty that you might spend 1h in line that makes you waste time in the end.

No, but this is HN.

It depends on when you fly. I haven't had a really bad (1 hour) security wait since 2002, but when the airports are really crowded, I've seen it get close to that.

Of course, assuming they allow supersonic flights over the continental united states. I imagine it would probably be severely restricted due to the noise concerns from the sonic boom.

The great circle route from NYC to Tokyo flies over virtually no part of the continental United States, aside from New York. (Canada, on the other hand, would be below the plane for much of the trip, but is sparsely populated enough if the north that I suspect you could route around major population centers easily.)

Exactly, you have to worry mostly about the coldest parts of Canada and maybe Russia

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=NRT-JFK

Ok, thats a good point. I'm not farmiliar enough with the globe to remember the great circle routes.

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