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London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
Boom Supersonic, based in Colorado, is developing the world’s first supersonic passenger ... In the end, only Air France and British Airways ever flew the Concorde. Putting the aircraft into ...
The Sun9d
‘Son of Concorde’ jet soars at supersonic speed for the first time ever paving way toward 3.5 hour London-NYC flights
The milestone makes the XB-1 the first ... in the British Airways fleet that required a flight engineer. Brandenburg has now joined a small class of people, made up of original Concorde passengers ...
The Daily Telegraph9d
Watch: New ‘Concorde’ breaks the speed of sound for first time
The US company is seeking to revive the technology more than two decades after Concorde was retired by British Airways amid struggles ... Chuck Yeager become the first person to exceed the speed ...
executivetraveller7d
BA’s upgraded Singapore lounge challenges Qantas for ‘best in class’
The Concorde Dining room is restricted to first class passengers, British Airways Gold Guest List members, and – according to British Airways PR – BA Golds and their Oneworld Emerald equivalents (such ...
Boise State Public Radio9d
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 ...
The Daily Telegraph13d
The world’s best first-class cabin? I’ve flown in most of them and this is my verdict
Each BA first-class suite has walls which are 5ft high ... to and from the departure and arrival airport, nor from the Concorde Room at Terminal 5 to the steps of the jet. Plus, some passengers ...
WAMC9d
The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
A private company aiming to build the first supersonic ... by Britain and France, Concorde was operated for nearly three decades by Air France and British Airways. However, the jet was criticized ...