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Concorde’s Longest Flights: Routes, Records, and the Limits of Supersonic Travel

Karan Bhatta — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:14:34 +0000

The Concorde, the second supersonic airliner, established aviation benchmarks such as the speed of Mach 2.34 that remain unmatched for a commercial aircraft decades after its retirement. The debate over the longest Concorde flight encompasses two distinct milestones: the farthest regular commercial routing the aircraft ever completed and a unique scientific mission in 1973 that […]

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Why did Concorde Stop Flying? Top 5 Reasons Why it Failed

Karan Bhatta — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:28:33 +0000

Concorde was an aircraft that had come after fourteen years of collaboration between France and Britain. It was sleek, agile, and had cruised at greater than Mach 2, allowing it to cross the pond in less than two hours. This aircraft saw passenger operations as far back as 1976, prompting to ask if one could […]

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Concorde’s Top Speed: A look at the safest supersonic airliner’s pace

Karan Bhatta — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:06:49 +0000

When the former Air France chairman, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, said, “Concorde will never really stop flying because she will live on in people’s imagination”, it encapsulated everyone’s feelings. Apart from hardcore environmentalists who have maintained that an aviation world full of Concordes would simply ruin the planet (for the aircraft was a gas guzzler)[zero carbon flight […]

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The Concorde Flew at 1,350 MPH. Why Haven’t Passenger Planes Gotten Faster?

Karan Bhatta — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:08:26 +0000

A layperson’s understanding is that increasing the speed of commercial aircraft would be a boon for the aviation community. A report from BBC showed that planes have become slower in the past 50 years. A flight in 1967 from New York to Los Angeles which took 5 hours and 43 minutes, currently is 40 minutes […]

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Concorde Was Faster Than Sound. But at What Environmental Cost?

Karan Bhatta — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:42:49 +0000

The iconic supersonic jet, Concorde, (which probably had an even more iconic flight number: BA001) concluded its 27-year service with a final landing at Filton runway in November 2003. An absence of commercial viability, public concerns about the plane’s noise ( the sonic boom ) alongside high levels of pollution, led to its demise. Concorde, […]

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From 10 km/h to Mach 2.15: How Commercial Aircraft Speeds Have Changed

Karan Bhatta — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:16:28 +0000

It has been just over a century since passengers have been able to fly commercially. During this time, we have seen giants such as the Airbus A380, which has the capacity to transport more than 850 passengers and set a record for being the biggest commercial aircraft ever. Aircraft like the A380 necessitate a different […]

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Concorde Flew at Mach 2.04. Are Supersonic Airliners Finally Coming Back?

Karan Bhatta — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:37:55 +0000

Concorde was one aircraft whose sleek, luxury, and speed have not yet found a worthy replacement. Aviation lovers are nostalgic about the times it just glided through the skies at twice the speed of sound. Much like many beauties, it had its rival- the Tupolev Tu-144, which debuted two months before the Concorde and was […]

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