Big Bang Plane Theory

Credit: Boom Technology
Boeing’s 2707 supersonic airliner was canceled in 1971. NASA’s High-Speed Research program was terminated in 1999. The Anglo-French Concorde was retired in 2003. Even the not-quite-supersonic Boeing Sonic Cruiser got scrubbed in 2001. The trajectory of supersonic travel has been downward in recent...

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