For 27 years, Concorde made a mockery of time. Leave London, cross the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, and land in New York before your watch caught up with the time difference, arriving (on paper) before you’d even technically left.
Then, in October 2003, its time was up. Concorde flew its last commercial route – BA002 from JFK to London – and was wheeled into retirement, done in not by a lack of ambition but by a multitude of problems.
Over two decades later, three separate programmes believe they’ve identified where Concorde went wrong and are working to bring back supersonic travel. But can they do it and give us the chance to fly…
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