Virgin wants to revive supersonic jet travel, but faster at Mach 3

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Monday announced a partnership with engine-maker Rolls-Royce to build a supersonic commercial plane that flies at three times the speed of sound.The aircraft would travel at Mach 3 – rather than the Mach 2 speed of Concorde, the pioneering jet that operated from 1976 to 2003.Any new supersonic plane would have to solve the problems that doomed Concorde, in particular noise and fuel consumption.“We are excited to … unveil this initial design concept of a…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3095904/virgin-wants-revive-supersonic-jet-travel-faster-mach-3