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1 posted on 06/27/2025 5:50:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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AVIATION PING!....................


2 posted on 06/27/2025 5:50:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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NY to London. Quickness between two Islamic cities.


3 posted on 06/27/2025 5:52:25 AM PDT by xp38
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To be soon overtaken by Starship which will do New York to Australia in less than an hour.
4 posted on 06/27/2025 5:53:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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I guess “climate change” really is dead now for the Leftists!


6 posted on 06/27/2025 5:56:52 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Now if I can scratch up the 15K per ticket it will likely cost to fly on the new Concorde....


7 posted on 06/27/2025 5:57:45 AM PDT by bort
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Question is, who in their right mind is in a hurry to get to England? 😆


9 posted on 06/27/2025 5:59:01 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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If really entering service in 2026, I’d expect to see pictures of the new plane, not the old one.

Or maybe the new plane isn’t particularly “new”.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 5:59:49 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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How nice. It’ll be like flying from New York to Pakistan in 2 hours. Don’t forget to bring your young daughters. Hard pass on that.


12 posted on 06/27/2025 5:59:59 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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“The U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed legislation that lifted the previous ban on supersonic flight over land on June 6, 2025. “


Somehow, I missed that.


19 posted on 06/27/2025 6:03:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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Few will be able to afford the ticket price.

“In 1977, it cost £431 to fly one way onboard Concorde between London and Washington. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about £2,200 ($2,800) in today’s money. However, fare prices gradually went up, and by 1996, a roundtrip across the Atlantic would generally be priced at around $12,500 in today’s money.”
(2023)

https://simpleflying.com/concorde-cost/


20 posted on 06/27/2025 6:04:55 AM PDT by delta7
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Flying from the East Coast to the West Coast, the New Concorde can divert over Canada or Mexico and let the sonic booms fall there.

(tip of the hat to New Concord, Ohio! No airplane will ever replace you!)

22 posted on 06/27/2025 6:07:56 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Interestingly, it could slash the London to New York flight time to just 2 hours, down from the current 6 hours and 12 minutes.

Now that's progress. I don't get why the plane sonic boom over an ocean even matters?

24 posted on 06/27/2025 6:09:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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“Since 1973, this ban has ensured that American skies remained free of sonic booms.”

If the writer of this story didn’t HATE THE MILITARY* so much, he’d know that anyone who lives near an Air Force base would disagree with him.

*he’s a journalist, therefore he required to hate the military (except when used to kill Serbs or Ruzzians).


28 posted on 06/27/2025 6:12:28 AM PDT by BobL
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Somehow, I don’t see it happening. There may not be enough people willing to pay the price to get there a few hours faster.


32 posted on 06/27/2025 6:14:56 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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I’ve heard PDJT gushing about the Concorde, so this doesn’t surprise me at all.


47 posted on 06/27/2025 6:41:49 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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2026 is only 6 months away. Frankly, I don’t believe this story. Sounds like BS to me.


50 posted on 06/27/2025 6:49:40 AM PDT by Ditto
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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.


51 posted on 06/27/2025 6:51:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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The ticket price used to be $1500. I wonder what it will be now?


99 posted on 06/27/2025 8:44:33 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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On that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by ‘76 we’ll be A-OK
-D.Fagen


115 posted on 06/27/2025 11:01:28 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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Anybody want to bet this isn’t gonna happen by 2026? 10 years at least. Most likely never.


119 posted on 06/27/2025 11:29:02 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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