#Boom: Return of the supersonic airliner. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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#Boom: Return of the supersonic airliner. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/boom-begins-taxi-tests-of-a-one-third-scale-prototype-of-its-proposed-supersonic-passenger-plane
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.2 | This is CBS, I'm the World Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman, I'm John Bachelor and SpaceX. |
| 0:40.8 | We go to success that is routine. This time it involves man as well as unmanned. What have they done, Bob? |
| 0:48.3 | Yes, so on the Saturday of this past weekend, they did two launches within 24 hours, both out of Cape |
| 0:56.1 | Canaveral. The first launch lifted four astronauts to ISS on a six month mission. |
| 1:02.8 | They used the endurance capsule, which was making its third flight. The first day, however, |
| 1:07.3 | it was flying for the first time, landed back at Cape Canaveral. That seems to SpaceX, |
| 1:13.6 | the launch is a new first stage, about one to two times a year. They reuse things successfully. |
| 1:22.7 | Then shortly thereafter, a few, I don't know, about six hours later, they launched another |
| 1:30.3 | launch from Cape Canaveral and put 22 stalling satellites in orbit. In this case, the first stage |
| 1:36.2 | completed its third flight and landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic. At this moment in time, |
| 1:41.6 | SpaceX, by itself, trails the rest of the world, excluding other American companies, 59 to 60 |
| 1:50.4 | unsuccessful launches. In other words, SpaceX is only one launch behind the rest of the world in |
| 1:55.1 | launches. The U.S. is almost double in launches to China, the second nation in the world. Private |
| 2:02.8 | enterprise here is beating the pants off with everybody else right now. |
| 2:06.3 | I do like that Rocket Lab is in the mix now, Bob. Yes, that's absolutely okay. It's really |
| 2:12.5 | interesting that the big space of the launch companies like Melphogrummin and ULA, and not in the |
| 2:18.8 | leaderboard. They don't show up because they haven't launched very much. Well, Rocket Lab is going |
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