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Early in the afternoon of July 25, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 crashed upon takeoff at the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris. All 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four ...

SST cargo flights continued until 1999. The Concorde SST flew passenger service 1976-2003 representing a 27-year span of commercial service. It is nice to know that Fairbanks played a small role in ...

Almost from the start, the U.S. effort to build a supersonic jet transport has been buffeted by technical, financial and political turbulence. The resulting delays have already set back development of ...

Boeing NeXt invested significantly in Aerion Supersonic, boosting the likelihood of the AS2 supersonic business jet's development. The AS2 is a 12-passenger jet designed for Mach 1.4 speed (approx.

Dassault Aviation and Gulfstream say they continue to study key technologies for a future supersonic transport. Dassault and 35 other companies and research institutes are participating in a four-year ...

The U.S. plans for a supersonic transport have had as many ups and downs as a single-prop plane bulling its way through a thunderstorm. Last week President Johnson received the most optimistic report ...