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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Affordable London to New York flights in under four hours: Boom Supersonic outlines Concorde-esque ambitions

“We’re aiming to pick up where Concorde left off,” says Blake Scholl.

Fifty years after the Anglo-French jet first carried paying passengers faster than the speed of sound, the Denver-based entrepreneur is set on bringing back supersonic passenger flight. But he vows to do so “in a way that’s far more mainstream and accessible than Concorde ever was”.

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