•There was a moment in history when you could board a plane in London, sip champagne at Mach 2, and land in New York before your local departure time.

•That wasn’t science fiction. That was the Concorde.

•A supersonic masterpiece, flying at over 1,350 mph, the Concorde turned a 7-hour transatlantic slog into a 3 hour flex. You’d leave Heathrow at 10:30 AM and arrive at JFK at 9:20 AM. Earlier than you left. Wild.

•It was loud. Expensive. Inefficient. But it worked. For nearly 30 years, we lived in the future and then, in 2003, we walked away.

•No more sonic booms. No more time-bending flights. Just a quiet return to slow skies and economy seats.

Now, two decades later, the question feels louder than ever:

✓Why did we stop?

✓Was it cost? Carbon? Complacency?

And more importantly:

✓Is it time to start again?

•Startups like Boom Supersonic, along with legacy aerospace giants, are betting on a new wave of sustainable, faster than sound travel. But the world’s changed. Carbon footprints matter. Scalability matters. Equity matters.

So we’re left with a choice:

✓Was Concorde a beautiful, unsustainable blip or a prototype we abandoned too soon?

Curious what others think. Is the dream of supersonic flight dead or just waiting for better timing?