The dream of supersonic travel didn’t die with the Concorde—it just went quiet. Literally. A Boston-based aerospace firm, Spike Aerospace, claims its upcoming S-512 Diplomat business jet will fly from New York to Paris in under four hours—without shattering windows or rattling eardrums along the way.
That’s the breakthrough. Since 1973, supersonic flight over U.S. territory has been banned because of the disruptive sonic booms that rattled cities and outraged regulators. If Spike delivers on its promise of a “low-boom” jet, it won’t just shrink the map—it will reopen airspace that’s been locked down for half a century.
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