New York to Paris in Under Four Hours? Inside the Effort to Build the Next Concorde

New York to Paris in Under Four Hours? Inside the Effort to Build the Next Concorde

When the Concorde was grounded in 2003, done in by strained economics and a fiery crash on a Paris runway, it appeared to be the end of the line for supersonic travel. Nothing emerged to replace it. In fact, the speed of air travel moved in the opposite direction, with many routes getting slower in recent years as congestion and air-traffic control inefficiencies jammed up the skies.