Concorde was taken out of service in 2001 is on track to become the world’s leading supersonic passenger aircraft once again.

Concorde was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing. Instead, the Boeing 747 entered commercial service in 1970 .

Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs.

Even today, as Concorde's decades of service draw to a close, modern fighter aircraft only sustain such speeds for brief bursts. Putting together a plane which could carry 100 passengers at such ...

Led by Wu Dawei, Comac’s award-winning aerodynamicist, a team outlined in a March 14 paper in Acta Aeronautica Sinica their goal to achieve a 50% increase in range over the Concorde, from 4,500 ...

When the Concorde was grounded in 2003, done in by strained economics and a fiery crash on a Paris runway, it appeared to be the end of the line for supersonic travel. Nothing emerged to replace it.