BOOM SUPERSONIC PASSENGER AIRPLANE

Many businesspeople and aviation enthusiasts lamented the day that the Concorde was decommissioned, ending the dream of commercial supersonic flight. The Boom Supersonic Passenger Airplane is trying to rekindle that dream. Behind the plane is a talented team with experience at Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, and NASA, and they’re already hard at work in their Denver headquarters building the first prototype. Its first flight is scheduled for late next year, and with any luck we’ll all have the ability to cruise at Mach 2.2 — that’s 1,451 mph, fast enough to travel from New York to London in just 3.4 hours — soon.