Ahh,, the rich - They truly are different

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The Aerion AS2 is a supersonic business jet being developed by Lockheed Martin in partnership with the Nevada-based startup Aerion.


Fifteen years after the last Concorde flew, a new fleet of up to 2,000 supersonic business jets is in the works to ferry wealthy travelers around the world. The planes are expected to hit the runway in the next decade, but the climate change alarms are already going off.

President Donald Trump, of course, has hailed the supersonic revival as an example of the “Great American Spirit.” NASA dropped a $247.5 million contract on Lockheed Martin to build a quieter engine capable of breaking the sound barrier.

Climate advocates, meanwhile, are pointing to a new report, released Tuesday by the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation, that offers heavy criticism of the next generation of ultra-fast business jets.

The ICCT, which uncovered the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal, warns that increased emissions from the new jets risk “large environmental consequences.” Its report concludes that the planes will burn five to seven times more fuel than normal aircraft and break United Nations set carbon dioxide emissions limits for aircraft by 70 percent.

Just so they can, I guess, get to that meeting of their other uber-rich fellows a few hours quicker. The hell with video conferencing, e-mails, telephones and such. ZOOM, ZOOM - Look at me.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supersonic-jets-climate-change_us_5b4ce244e4b022fdcc5c5355