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Chinese prototype jet completes test at Mach 4, aims to cut New York-Beijing travel to two hours as maiden passenger flight planned for 2027 | Malay Mail
BEIJING, Oct 29 — A Chinese aerospace company has completed a successful test flight of a prototype for a supersonic commercial transport plane that aims to travel at Mach 4,...
BEIJING, Oct 29 — A Chinese aerospace company has completed a successful test flight of a prototype for a supersonic commercial transport plane that aims to travel at Mach 4, which is twice as fast as the retired Concorde. Beijing-based Space Transportation, also known as Lingkong Tianxing Technology, announced on Sunday that its Yunxing prototype had flown successfully the day before. The last civilian supersonic jet, the Concorde, was developed by British and French aerospace firms and flew at twice the speed of sound from 1976 until its retirement in 2003.
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