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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Will there ever be another Concorde?

We’d flown in propeller-powered planes, then jets. Supersonic was the next evolutionary step in flying people around the world as the 1960s came to a close. Now, 52 years after Concorde’s early flights supersonic flight is, again, an aviation pipe dream as we pack into our cheap ‘flying buses’ which are not much different from the first successful commercial jets that first flew in the 1950s.

Materials have changed a bit, but the seats have become smaller, service almost vanished and the experience a lot less enjoyable. Does anyone really look forward to a flight on a modern plane anymore?

(OK, not many of us are flying at the moment… hopefully soon)

Flying, once glamorous and earning its own title, the “Jetset”, is now a slog few of us look forward to. The destination, maybe, but not the actual flight. Whilst Air Asia boasts ‘Now Everyone Can Fly’, there was a…

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