That passenger plane is a long way away – Hermeus hopes to get it in the air for the first test flight before the decade is out, in 2029 – but because its technology has to be built almost entirely from the ground up, the company is already planning it out.įor a start, it will be much smaller than current airliners and even Concorde, which had a capacity of around 100 passengers. The dream of supersonic passenger flight hits turbulence
