The race to hypersonic speed—will air passengers feel the benefits?
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 09:12
in Astronomy & Space
When Concorde entered service 40 years ago, it more than doubled the speed of air travel at a stroke. Following Concorde's retirement, airliners today fly once more at subsonic speeds, but engineers worldwide are looking to a future in which high-speed flight is an everyday occurrence. Except they want to go one better: not at supersonic, but hypersonic speeds.