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Chinese Company Plans To Fly You At 9 Times The Speed Of Sound
Chinese company Space Transportation has some big plans. They’re currently developing a “rocket with wings” for space tourism as well as point-to-point travel.
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A Supersonic Jet And Its Shock Waves Appear To Pierce The Sun
Image Cache: NASA wants to build the next Concorde, bringing in a new age of supersonic jets that hopefully won’t rupture your eardrum. But in order to do that safely, there needs to be research and lots of it.
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The Last Supersonic Flight Of The Concorde Was 10 Years Ago Today
We were promised supersonic flights. Today, we stay well below the speed of sound. We were promised transatlantic flights from New York to London in three and a half hours. Today, that flight takes us seven hours. We were promised the future of flying. That future hasn’t existed for 10 years. The last flight of…
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The Concorde’s Soviet Older Sister That Just Couldn’t Stop Crashing
When you think of super sonic flight, you probably first think of the Concorde. But that wasn’t the first super sonic transporter and it certainly wasn’t the first commercial plane break the sound barrier. Those honours belong to the Tupolev TU-144, the USSR’s only super sonic transport.