Concorde Return

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Concorde return

Concorde may have retired but a number of projects hope to bring supersonic air travel back to the masses. On a March day in 1969, the future of air travel as revealed. !enty seven minutes later the screech "very loud noise# of ing signaled the end of !enty the maiden "inaugural# voyage of Concorde, one of only to supersonic passenger planes to ever fly. $ut it all came to an end in %&&', hen the fleet "flotte# as retired because of concerns about high costs, limited demand for the e(pensive tickets and the jets) safety,, folloing a deadly crash three years earlier. safety !o of the main problems facing any supersonic aircraft are increased drag "train*e#, !o and that famous +sonic boom, a loud gunshot-like noise that disturbed anyone unfortunate to be under the flight path "road#. rofessor /ang attends a team that has shon that a bi-plane ith to, stacked "eplil*es# ings "ailes# could bring huge improvements over the traditional delta-ing seen on Concorde. 0ndeed hen e have to ings, if e place them in a carefully designed manner, the shockaves "onde de choc# from the to ings can cancel each other and they can fly ith half the drag of Concorde 2oever if you are holding off booking that dream transatlantic trip in the hope of the shorter flight time in the near future, you may have a long ait. 3nginers believe it ill be +14 to %& years before anything an ything like Concorde is seen in the skies again.

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