Boom is the name of the one I read up on and it's very impressive but as you say it's just talk at this point. If SpaceX is entering the ring I'd bet on them. If they can send a rocket into space that comes back down and lands I think they'd have the engineering advantage on others.
RSL Solutions, LLC is a specific part of the org that helps players with work visas, among other things. This has the roster compliance stuff for each team as of mid-september: https://mlssoccer.app.box.com/s/c2ok055zmdadejs5zfmhjaj9otkw7wmp Hilariously, RSL is the only team where they didn't deduct the unavailable players from the total of of international players. RSL has 13 international players. 4 have been loaned out. 1 has been out injured all year. Javain Brown would also count, but he is on Season-Ending-Injury list, so I guess he doesn't really count? I thought we had traded to have 9 slots for the year, maybe 1 was for Javain? We have the following with green cards: Braian Ojeda Brayan Vera Pablo Ruiz Noel Caliskan NYRB, both LA teams and Miami don't make much sense though, (Chicago too maybe?) unless they have done a BUNCH of trades. Canadian teams have some loopholes where up to 3 longstanding players under certain conditions are allowed. Looks like several teams are well below their allotted 8.
True, but I do bang on about supersonic eventually coming back because demand considerations (mostly from globalization) mean that either getting the costs down 20% or the noise down 20% would probably be enough to make it work, even if you couldn't do both. NY to London or Paris is only 5 or 6 hours, and you can sleep on the plane if you have that kind of money, so it isn't really that big a deal to cut that time in half. But NY to Dubai or Riyadh or India, or LA to Tokyo, Shanghai, Mumbai, Sydney . . . those are like 11 to 13 hour flights or more, still mostly over water, and now you can save some real time. Round trip it's like getting an entire working day back.
Sure -- though I think it remains to be seen if the longer routes can handle the fuel requirements / stopping and still maintain the convenience. But that's still the SST model in a sense, and while there's plenty of big money out there with the inequality in the world, I do wonder if it still wouldn't be a bit more dependent on business travel, and I'm not sure the cost-benefit analysis will work for a company. A big old "maybe" on that one. It'll happen at some point, but these companies are further than they claim to commercializing.
Thought I would take a peek at what we're missing ... Mexico plays Panama and Bolivia in January, and Iceland in February. Canada 1-0 Guatemala (in California, a couple of days ago). Bolivia 1-1 Panama and Grenada 0-1 Jamaica (both matches yesterday) Bolivia and Jamaica are prepping for the WC playoffs in March. Not sure what Canada/Marsch thought they were accomplishing (with I assume a B/C squad). Mexico should help themselves financially, if nothing else, but I am confident they will gain/learn something from their three matches.
More on what Canada/Marsch hoped to accomplish at Camp Poutine ... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/14/canada-camp-poutine-jesse-marsch