When fast is not fast enough

ASSOCIATION OF MATURE AMERICAN CITIZENS

Experts predicted the failure of commercial supersonic air travel long before the first Concordes took off on January 21, 1976 ushering in a short-lived era of Super Sonic Travel [SST]. On that day a British Airways SST took off from London’s Heathrow Airport headed for Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and an Air France SuperJet flew from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, …