Concorde: The Fastest Passenger Airplane in the World
Jul 09, 2021•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds. However, the challenges in creating a passenger aircraft that could travel at supersonic speeds were much greater than making a fighter aircraft that could do the same. In 1976, a British/French consortium launched the inaugural flight of the most successful supersonic passenger aircraft in history. Learn more about the Concorde
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