Son of Concorde powers up
05 August 2015 - 02:04
Supersonic passenger planes could again race through the skies with Airbus having filed a patent for a successor to Concorde. The new jet would fly from London to New York in an hour, opening up the possibility of a transatlantic return journey in a day.Concorde 2 would fly at more than four times the speed of sound, or more than 4000km/h, according to documents filed at the US Patent Office.
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