And in 1962, the United Kingdom and France signed a treaty to share the risks and costs of developing a supersonic commercial airplane. The Concorde was born in 1969 through a partnership with ...

A small prototype jet ... of supersonic travel, halving some commercial journey times. The era of supersonic commercial flying "came to an abrupt end" in 2003 with the retirement of Concorde ...

"We're ready to scale up. We're ready to build the passenger supersonic jet that will pick up where Concorde left off and ultimately allow the rest of us to fly supersonic," Scholl said.