The agency has identified around 50 routes for supersonic service.
The latest round of interest in supersonic passenger air travel comes 20 years after the Concorde’s final commercial flight in the fall of 2003. It may have been a technical marvel but the supersonic jet failed to revolutionize air travel. This was partially because of the enormous cost that went into developing, building and flying the plane. A ban on supersonic flight over land by the U.S. and other countries didn’t help either, since it severely limited the routes it could fly.
It appears that NASA thinks things would go better this time around. Recent studies have identified around 50 possible passenger routes for jets that can travel between Mach 2 and Mach 4 , . The Concorde was limited to a top speed of Mach 2, while today’s passenger airliners fly at around 600 mph. Supersonic flight over land is still largely prohibitive, so the routes are all across the Pacific and North Atlantic.
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