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TravelPublished: May 30, 2026

Despite having full support of the mighty British and French governments the Concorde took 2,500 days to go from the drawing board to it’s first supersonic flight, this American startup building a luxury jet that can fly from NYC to London in 55 mins acheived that in 364 days

by Sayan Chakravarty

For generations, Concorde stood as the ultimate symbol of what happened when governments decided that speed mattered more than cost. Backed by Britain and…

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61 years after Europe tested the Concorde’s engines, an American startup is weeks away from firing the core of its jet engine, a crucial machine that can resurrect supersonic luxury and whisk passengers from NYC to London in the time it takes to fly from LAX to Houston

Long before AI minted millionaires, this Nebraska man made a fortune selling pizzas and celebrated his 40th birthday by booking every single seat on the Concorde and flying 98 of his closest friends from Omaha to London and back at twice the speed of sound

The mighty Concorde flew 5 miles above the standard aircraft, where the thin cabin air dulled the passenger’s taste buds by 30%, forcing the airline to serve salty caviar, rich foie gras, & fiery ginger not for luxury, but science so the food hit the nerves & not the tongue

Pepsi forced the Concorde to fly slow by painting it blue. Coors Light smartly used removable decals, served 48 ordinary Americans caviar at Mach 2, and sent them around the world in 31 short hours, creating a record that remains unbroken even today

The mighty Concorde flew so high that it was forced to carry a radiation meter to track dangerous cosmic storms. If the meter beeped, the only way pilots could protect the wealthy passengers from space radiation was to drop out of Mach 2 and descend into denser air

Wealthy Texans happily paid through the nose to fly the Concorde from Dallas to Washington, DC, enjoying champagne and caviar. Little did they know that the world’s fastest airliner did not break the sound barrier once and had been crawling the skies like an ordinary Boeing 727

As fast and cutting-edge as the Concorde was, its pilots loaded data into its navigation units not even with floppy disks, but with outdated magnetic cassette tapes so that the Mach 2 jet could cross the Atlantic without getting lost

Today’s first-class passengers get pajamas and skincare minis, but Concorde loyalists once walked off a three-hour Atlantic dash with Louis Vuitton leather goods that now sell for thousands, turning a supersonic flight into a flex modern airlines cannot dream of

Despite having full support of the mighty British and French governments the Concorde took 2,500 days to go from the drawing board to it’s first supersonic flight, this American startup building a luxury jet that can fly from NYC to London in 55 mins acheived that in 364 days

The mighty Concorde was so complicated that, along with two pilots, it needed a flight engineer constantly monitoring more than 200 gauges and juggling 95 tons of fuel across 13 tanks, all so the passengers could peacefully sip champagne while cruising at Mach 2

Japan has quietly entered the supersonic race and is developing an aircraft so fast that it can zoom passengers from Tokyo to New York faster than it would take America’s much-hyped Concorde successor to fly from LAX to JFK

The mighty Concorde had such an appeal that even before it had flown passengers across the Atlantic, Rolex built a solid gold GMT-Master legend around its pilots, cabins, and speed just to claim that its $1,100 timepiece could survive a Mach 2 flight with ease.