SUPERSONIC JET LONG ON SPEED, SHORT ON QUIET AND COMFORT.(FRONT) From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: July 26, 2000| Author: Dobyns, Lloyd | COPYRIGHT 2000 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The idea of supersonic flight was new and exciting, even a little daring, when the Concorde first flew in the early 1970s.

The thin, sleek plane that on a runway looked like a raptor was a joint project of Air France and British Airways, designed to attract the trans-Atlantic customer with speed.

As a television correspondent for NBC News in Paris, I had been on one of the press flights to nowhere - a fast figure-eight over the Atlantic - to demonstrate what t...

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