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Japan Airlines thinks we will want to fly faster in the future, so it is putting its money on a supersonic airplane. That’s an airplane that flies faster than the speed of sound. There used to be supersonic airplanes. France and Britain produced the Concorde, a beautifully designed airplane with a nose that pointed down. It was fast but very expensive. It could fly over the ocean, but the noise over land was too loud. The Concorde stopped flying in 2003. Now JAL is investing in a company called Boom which will build new planes. People will again be able to fly long distances in half the time. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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