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title: This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/this-plane-could-cross-the-atlantic-in-3-5-hours-why-did-it-fail/
date: 2016-07-19
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# This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?

The Concorde gave us supersonic transport. But why did this supersonic plane fail? The answer is complicated — Vox’s Phil Edwards investigated.