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What Actually Happened to the Concorde
The Concorde, a symbol of supersonic travel, met a tragic end with the crash of Flight 4590. This story details the ...
Texas Public Radio2d
The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...
Boom Supersonic breaks sound barrier paving way for 3.5 hour London to New York flights
A 'new Concorde' has broken the sound barrier - the Boom XB-1 test plane was launched from California's Mojave Air and Space ...
Daily Express3d
'Son of Concorde' 767mph supersonic jet set to blast off for first ever flight today
Concorde was retired from service in 2003 ... The aircraft had faced declining passenger numbers following the Air France Flight 4590 crash in 2000, in which 109 people were killed shortly ...
Metro18d
Major milestone for ‘Son of Concorde’ which will ‘fly from London to NYC in 3.5 hours’
fly at speeds between Mach 1.2 to Mach 2.5. But a range of factors led to Concorde falling out of favour, including the fatal tragic crash of Air France Flight 4590 in 2000 which dented public ...