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The challenges of building a hypersonic airliner
Could an airliner that flies anywhere in under three hours be in service by 2030? “It is a magic aircraft… the pleasure of flying in it is almost a carnal one.” So said Joelle Cornet-Templet, a chief stewardess for Air France, about Concorde: one of the world’s first supersonic civilian airplanes, which flew from 1976 to 2003 and became a watchword for travelling in style.
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