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How to break the sound barrier, or at least pretend to – Source CNET Tech

A Concorde aircraft in a museum in Bristol, England

The last Concorde is now at a museum in Bristol, England. 


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Though it’s been almost 20 years since the glamorous supersonic Concorde landed for good, dreams of letting ordinary people break the sound barrier again have never fizzled completely. Several companies want to bring it back, most notably Boom Supersonic, a Denver-based startup that last month won an order from United Airlines for a new faster-than-sound airliner called the Overture

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