Boom Supersonic: Anywhere in the world in four hours for $100 CNN 1 hr ago © Nathan Leach-Proffer, Boom Supersonic
The aviation industry is in crisis, there s a global push to cut carbon emissions, and many of us haven t stepped on a plane or hugged far-flung loved ones in more than a year.
Reviving the supersonic dream that died with Concorde s retirement nearly two decades ago seems, at first, like an outrageous fantasy.
The British-French airliner Concorde, one of only two supersonic jets to have operated commercially, flew from 1969 to 2003 and was ludicrously expensive and an environmental disaster.
But now a fresh bunch of start-ups are working on supersonic and hypersonic projects. Last October frontrunner Boom Supersonic was the first to roll out an actual honest-to-goodness IRL demonstrator aircraft, the XB1.
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