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Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies

  • Written by Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Don't call it a comeback.Aero Icarus/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Flying faster than the speed of sound still sounds futuristic for regular people, more than 15 years after the last commercial supersonic flights ended. The planes that made those journeys, the 14 aircraft collectively known as the Concorde, flew from 1976 to 2003. It traveled three...

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