Airbus patents successor to supersonic air travel
The concept plane would fly at four times the speed of sound and across the Pacific in three hours.
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The Concorde is gone but the dream of super-fast air travel isn’t over.
Airbus has won a patent for an “ultra-rapid air vehicle” that it says could travel more than four times faster than sound.
That could take it from London to New York in an hour or between Tokyo and Los Angeles in three
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Nevil Gibson
Thu, 06 Aug 2015
Thu, 06 Aug 2015
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Airbus patents successor to supersonic air travel
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