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HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl

2023-02-23 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·40m 21s ·by Guy Raz / NPR
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
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Commercial air travel has been stuck below the sound barrier for about 20 years, since the Concorde’s last flight in 2003. While the technology exists to fly about twice as fast as we do now, conventional wisdom in the aerospace industry is that supersonic flight simply doesn’t make economic sense.