Concorde
a supersonic passenger aircraft manufactured and operated jointly by England and France.
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Boom is a Colorado-based startup with a goal to create a new kind of Concorde—a supersonic aircraft that would bring back faster-than–the-speed-of-sound travel to commercial aviation, and do it in an affordable, sustainable way.
Boom plans to make its supersonic passenger planes in North Carolina | Rob Verger | January 27, 2022 | Popular-ScienceEver since the Concorde stopped soaring around at supersonic speeds in 2003, it’s been impossible for people to book a ticket on an airliner that travels faster than the speed of sound.
The Air Force is investing millions in what could be the next Concorde | Rob Verger | January 11, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThe Concorde never became really economical, and certainly never became affordable to a wide audience, and ultimately ended up getting canceled.
The final flight of British Airways’ Concorde took place in October 2003, going from New York to London in three and a half hours.
NASA Timelapse Shows X-59 Supersonic Jet Being Built Over Two Years | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | August 6, 2021 | Singularity HubThe other vision bets on a fleet of a few dozen supersonic airliners jetting well-heeled travelers from one global city to another, a dream that many thought died with the Concorde some 20 years ago.
Aviation in 2030: Fuel-guzzling supersonic planes or electric air taxis? | Tim De Chant | June 3, 2021 | Ars Technica
After years of negotiations and a tough journey, the obelisk was planted at the Place de la Concorde.
In 1994 she redesigned the interiors of the supersonic Concorde for Air France.
Andrée Putman, ‘the Grande Dame of Design,’ Revolutionized Interiors | Tracy McNicoll | January 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI left the New York Post in 1998 and boarded the morning Concorde to London, bound for the London Sun.
Their accelerating crack-up was like a sonic boom: You heard it only after the Concorde was gone.
He dismissed his servants, and, with his portfolio under his arm, set forth across the Pont de la Concorde.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetThere the first break in the straight line from the Place de la Concorde occurs.
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport GibbonsAn engineer regiment was fighting the water in the Place de la Concorde by the light of acetylene lamps.
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport GibbonsThen one day, in the sunny desert of the Place de la Concorde, he came on a more cheering sight.
The Marne | Edith WhartonImmediately a familiar scene appeared upon the sheet, a colored photograph of the Place de la Concorde.
Through the Wall | Cleveland Moffett
British Dictionary definitions for Concorde
/ (ˈkɒnkɔːd, ˈkɒŋ-) /
the first commercial supersonic airliner. Of Anglo-French construction, it is capable of cruising at over 2160 km per hr (1200 mph)
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