A former Amazon software engineer is looking to bring supersonic flight back to everyday passengers, but getting the public and investors to buy in might be more challenging than the technology, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In 2003, the Concorde supersonic passenger jet was grounded following a disastrous crash in Paris that killed all 109 people on board coupled with years of cost overruns. But Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl feels the time is right to introduce ultrafast flights back into society.

Speaking exclusively to the Journal, Scholl said he envisions a world where a New York-to-Paris flight is under four hours instead of the current travel time of nearly twice that.

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