Aircraft
Supersonic Business Jet Still a Faraway Dream
Economical, practical, environmentally friendly supersonic flight is the next big thing in commercial aviation.

Economical, practical, environmentally friendly supersonic flight is the next big thing in commercial aviation. Or is it? From where aeronautical technology stands today, practical supersonic flight (and by “practical,” we do not mean the Anglo-French Concorde, which generates noise and atmospheric pollution levels that preclude all but the smallest volumes of operation) is far off.

However unattainable it may look now, clean, efficient and boom-free supersonic flight would make its inventor(s) very rich and famous indeed. That’s why three major players, Gulfstream, Dassault and Sukhoi are working quietly on aviation’s version of the better mouse trap.

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