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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Ever since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, civil supersonic flight has been something of a lost art. In recent years, a number of startups have been working on various projects to ...