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Concorde's record New York to London. A 777 needs about seven hours for the same crossing today.
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Bring back Concorde.
On 24 October 2003 the fastest way to cross the Atlantic retired, and nothing has replaced it. Twenty-three years later, the journey takes twice as long as it did in 1996. This is a novelty petition with no legal force whatsoever — and we would still like to know how many of you feel the same way.
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Retired24 Oct 2003
Years grounded—
Top speed lost2,179 km/h
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Why bother
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Mach 2.04
Cruise speed — faster than a rifle bullet, at 60,000 ft, where you could see the curvature of the Earth.
23 years
Since the last commercial supersonic flight. Aviation is the only mode of transport that got slower.
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Supersonic airliners currently carrying passengers, anywhere in the world.
Realistically, Concorde is not coming back — but something might. We looked hard at whether it actually will.
Read: is supersonic travel actually coming back? →