Concorde was the first to hit the skies in 1970's. It flew across the country of London to New York in three hours. But despite being able to travel as twice as the speed of light, supersonic commercial aircraft still remain complex and prohibitively expensive.

According to Wired, the supersonic aircraft also produces an inevitable sonic boom that is disturbing that Congress made a decision to banned Concorde from overland routes in 2003. But because of the advancements in materials and aerodynamics, the Concorde-style jets could make a comeback and work on a supersonic plane that is getting better within a decade.

In recent advances, the noise will be reduced along with the falling commercial flight prices that could make the supersonic travel more viable within ten years. In Hammond's study, they found a potential market for 450 supersonic aircraft and noted that the technology is within the reach. However, the move will mark an incremental improvement in fuel effectiveness and noise reduction, not the speed.

Mail Online reported that the aircraft engineering has somewhat improved ever since Concorde was flying, Samuel Hammond noted on his research paper. Since 1965, commercial aircraft are not faster as it were when the Concorde prototypes started to construct. Hammond added that with lighter materials, more efficient engines, better modeling, and more experience, it is possible to construct an aircraft that is both faster and affordable than the Concorde.

Constructing a commercial supersonic aircraft might hinder Boeing and the Russian firm Tupolev, which has been both abandon its program since the 1970s. The engineers still continue addressing the hindrance into its adoption and it starts with the noise.

The Lockheed team that develops the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane hoping for a greater streamlining that can eliminate the boom. The concept is to make a sleeker shape that administers the shockwaves over the broader area. Peter Iosifidis said that dropping the cockpit canopy in favor with an electronic vision system will eliminate another boom points.

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