500 km h or 5, 280 mph) taking passengers from Brussels to Sydney in 2 hours and 55 minutes.
Spike Aerospace, another US company, plans to launch a similar supersonic business passenger plane with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows.
The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
These passengers would be made up mostly of enthusiastic first-class ticket holders. By 2030 the hypersonic aviation industry could employ over 500,000 people,
This represents about 10%of the market of passengers willing to pay for these timesaving routes.
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