Super-fast flights: Are supersonic jets commercially viable?
The Concorde was an iconic supersonic airliner that flew for 35 years, offering super-fast travel, such as flights from London to New York in under three hours. Before that was the horrendous airplane crash in 2000 caused by human error and a disregard for aviation safety procedures, which caused public opinion of the famous aircraft to plunge, and passenger numbers never picked up again.