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Here comes the Boom: Meet the team that’s bringing back supersonic air travel – Digital Trends
From the ashes of Concorde, a new company called Boom Supersonic is making moves to bring faster-than-sound passenger planes back to the skies.
The iconic Concorde, the world’s first — and to date, last — supersonic commercial passenger jet, took its final transatlantic voyage on October 24, 2003. Taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, it flew to London’s Heathrow Airport in less than four hours, around half the time it takes today’s commercial airliners. For its historic, last ever flight, passengers on the British Airways jet included actress Joan Collins, supermodel Christie Brinkey, and a couple from Ohio…
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