Posted on 06/27/2025 5:50:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
British Airways Concorde G-BOAC Eduard Marmet/Wikimedia Commons
The legendary Concorde, a supersonic airliner, is slated to make its commercial comeback by 2026.
The U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed legislation that lifted the previous ban on supersonic flight over land on June 6, 2025.
“This order begins a historic national effort to reestablish the United States as the undisputed leader in high-speed aviation,” the official White House statement stated.
Since 1973, this ban has ensured that American skies remained free of sonic booms.
The new rule change paves the way for a new age of air travel, which will be “faster, quieter, safer, and more efficient than ever before.”
With this new rule, Fly-Concorde Limited plans to return supersonic passenger flights from the U.S.
The redesigned Concorde is expected to fly with greater speed, less noise, and reduced emissions compared to the original version.
Use of sustainable fuel
The new Concorde version will keep its classic look, but it’s been redesigned with modern engineering, making it a very different aircraft from the original.
It’ll be 50% lighter, thanks to advanced composite materials.
And in a monumental leap for environmental responsibility, it will run on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), slashing emissions by a remarkable 80%.
As per the website, the new Concorde is expected to fly at 60,000 feet, a considerably greater height than standard commercial jets.
Interestingly, it could slash the London to New York flight time to just 2 hours, down from the current 6 hours and 12 minutes.
“A lot of people are already talking about supersonic flight, that it’s an enormous step forward to get there and would require billions of dollars of investment — we have to take all this one step at a time, because our airplane the CONCORDE already flew for the past 60 years and for 30 years carried more than 2 million paying customers across the skies,” said Dr Pano Kroko Churchill, founder and CEO of Fly Concorde.
“It’s an evolution that’s come full circle with the new CONCORDE,” Churchill added.
High competition
To fully grasp the significance of this return, it’s essential to understand its beginnings.
The Concorde’s development began with a visionary 1962 treaty between France and the UK, a joint effort to conquer the challenges of supersonic transport
After its first flight in 1969, the Concorde began commercial service on January 21, 1976.
British Airways and Air France launched initial routes, quickly adding transatlantic flights to Washington Dulles and New York JFK that took less than three and a half hours, a remarkable speed for its time. Flying at Mach 2.04 (2,179 km/h), it was considered an engineering marvel.
Despite initial worldwide interest, the original Concorde struggled commercially due to high operating costs, restricted routes (primarily because of its loud sonic boom), and continuous financial losses. Reportedly, only 14 aircraft ever entered service.
Then, tragedy struck. On July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris. The incident involved a tire bursting, a fuel tank puncturing, and a devastating fire erupting. All 109 on board and 4 on the ground perished.
This terrible accident, compounded by rising maintenance costs and fewer passengers, signaled the end for the Concorde.
Air France retired its planes in May 2003, and British Airways followed in October of the same year, seemingly ending commercial supersonic flights.
With its planned return by 2026, the Concorde is re-entering a competitive field.
It now joins several other companies – Boom Supersonic, Exosonic, Spike Aerospace, and Hermeus – all actively working to develop the next generation of supersonic (and even hypersonic) aircraft.
Celebrities will, until it becomes no longer novel..............
Flew outta Detroit and am in Frankfort now.
$1100 round trip. Book early.
On another note. The same folks posting the death of Europe over the decades are same that wrote off the Good Old USA .
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The ignore them.😉
Muslims affect politics far beyond their population. The changes start at about 5%, which is probably about where NYC is right now, though they’re likely more than double that in their public schools. NYC has close to a quarter of all the US’s Muslims, and the changes tend to become dramatic at the 10%, 15%, and over 15% levels.
But no, I wasn’t anticipating such a show of force in the City in 2025.
They don’t have to be the majority to change and move the culture in their direction. It was less than a majority of Americans who supported independence from Britain, the right to gay marriage was never approved by a majority.
Are they going to refurbish the one that I last saw sitting on the deck of the intrepid?
But the so-called Christian entities (Police, Church of England, etc) only suppress the Christian/White populace.
I’ve heard PDJT gushing about the Concorde, so this doesn’t surprise me at all.
Kayak.com.
Long flight just means a few drinks before boarding. But not too many as YT clips illustrate.
When was that? It’s much too large for an aircraft carrier...............
2026 is only 6 months away. Frankly, I don’t believe this story. Sounds like BS to me.
This article is absolute nonsense.
There is no way on God’s green Earth that a new composite version of the Concorde can be designed, built, and certified for passenger operations by December 31, 2026.
2036, maybe, but not any of the 2020s.
It’s the same planes, just refurbished with new modern materials and electronics...............
I’ve been driving around NYC for forty years. But in the past year or so the number of fully burka clad women visible has skyrocketed. That is not hyperbole.
A Muslim mayor is not going to change the culture of NYC to an Islamic culture.
I lived i NYC for a long time, that is simply not going to happen
They’ve been designing, building and testing it for a long time already.
Its not starting today obviously.
What you might start to see is the blessing of Sharia courts outside our system of law. Influence over how Islam is taught in schools. Already you’ve got anti-American alliances with the left.
And I’ve lived there too.
Explain how they were elected. King Charles has long leaned islamic. Visit the countless British accounts/channels discussing how the government from Parliament to the local level is moving that direction. Police turn a blind eye to certain suspects. Check the latest child molestation geographic where nothing is done.
I was checking out the Whitechapel area on street view and Jack the Ripper wouldn’t recognize the people. Nothing but crowds of burkas.
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