Do you often have time to spare? Then you can take the opportunity to go the route London to New York. It only takes an hour – on a new Concorde becomes reality.
It is Business Insider reveals that the aircraft manufacturer Airbus received a patent approved a new Concorde will have a top speed of Mach 4.5. This corresponds to four and a half times the speed of sound. At an air temperature of 15 degrees Celsius is equivalent to almost 4900 kilometers per hour.
The increased speed means that, for example, going from London to New York can be covered in one hour. To go from Paris to San Francisco or Tokyo to Los Angeles would take about three hours.
The last Concorde series which were withdrawn from service in 2003 took three and a half hour to bring passengers between New York and London . The reason that the series was scrapped because a large part of a noted aircraft accident in Paris in 2000, where all on board were killed.
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The new Concorde only has room for 20 passengers. If the super-fast plane becomes reality suggests that it would be directed towards a more elite group of travelers and military transports, according to Business Insider.
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