France and Japan plan to build new supersonic jet.(Brief Article)

From: Airline Industry Information | Date: June 15, 2005 | Copyright information

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Japan and France are to cooperate in the development of a new supersonic commercial aircraft.

Japan's trade ministry has said that research will be carried out over the next three years with the aim of building a passenger jet that can fly faster than the speed of...

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