Western Europe: Clouds over the Concorde

WESTERN EUROPE

The announcement that the U.S. already has a plane flying at three times the speed of sound last week sent shock waves across Britain and France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. Lockheed's All, and the American technological breakthroughs it implies, makes it almost certain that the U.S. will produce a supersonic plane that will be bigger, faster and cheaper to operate than the Mach 2.2 Concorde.

Headlined Paris-Presse: THE A-II AIR CRAFT A GRAVE MENACE TO THE CONCORDE. Echoed Le Figaro: THE CONCORDE...

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