We need more aircraft manufacturers. I don't care about efficiency. I care about style.
With a bunch of different companies we'd get some truly weird designs. Twin boom tails on a stealth fighter or some shit. A lot of companies means way more ideas which means more weird planes, which we all like.
So I say we save the weird planes and break up the big aerospace companies.
Who knows, maybe we'll get weird spaceships this time!
We need more aircraft manufacturers. I don’t care about efficiency. I care about style.
Companies that buy airplanes care about efficiency and don't really care about style.
If you want weird, figure out how to make it efficient in some way (flies farther, flies significantly faster, drinks less fuel, dirt cheap to build, dirt cheap to maintain), etc.
One company's "weird" is Boom Supersonic. They're going with "flies significantly faster"
It is crazy crazy expensive designing and building a normal passenger airliner at scale. We'll see if this company is able to do all that, as well as something new.