It marks a new dawn for the era of supersonic travel, after the Concorde retired in 2003. Commercial supersonic flight over land has been banned in the US for more than 50 years, and about 20 ...
There have been no commercial aircraft even capable of supersonic flight since the Concorde. The aircraft were banned in the UK because they were deemed too noisy and extremely expensive to operate.
Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...
bringing back supersonic passenger travel for the first time since the Concorde. Earlier this month, a smaller prototype of the jet, nicknamed “Baby Boom,” took its first test flight over the ...
But if all goes to plan, passengers could fly supersonic in 2029. Concorde made its final flight in 2003. Overture would similarly cruise at 60,000 feet, albeit with a slightly smaller capacity of ...