AdvertisementAviation giant Rolls-Royce has thrown its significant expertise behind a project hoping to build the world's fastest civil aircraft. The three-engine Boom aircraft has a sonic boom 'at least 30 times quieter' than Concorde, Boom claims. During landing and takeoff, the company says: 'Overture will be as quiet as the subsonic aircraft flying similar routes today.' A fleet of 2,000 of the supersonic passenger planes could eventually link cities across the globe. A fleet of 2,000 of the supersonic passenger planes could eventually link cities across the globe in the future.

Source: Daily Mail July 31, 2020 09:41 UTC