On December 11, 1967, the first supersonic, passenger-carrying, commercial airplane, named Concorde was exposed to exhibition in Toulouse, France.
Built jointly by British and French manufacturers, it entered regular service in 1976. Its maximum cruising speed is 1,354 mph (2,179 kph), more than twice the speed of sound; the London-New York flight takes less than four hours and can cost close to $10,000.
The French and British Airlines used this plane in some of their lines including the US-Europe pathways that reduced the flight duration. But ultimately due to heavy cost and too much noise and after several years of environmentalists’ efforts, production of Concorde planes was stopped.
