France, Britain Plan ‘Super-Concorde’
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PARIS — France and Britain, which built the supersonic Concorde airliner 20 years ago, will announce plans this week to build a bigger, faster version of the plane capable of flying from Europe to Tokyo in five hours.
Aviation sources said makers British Aerospace and France’s Aerospatiale planned a 200-seat “Super-Concorde,” which will cut flying time. It currently takes conventional aircraft more than 12 hours to reach Japan from Western Europe.
Aerospatiale said Monday that a news conference would be held Wednesday to announce “an important agreement concerning studies of a new supersonic plane” but declined further comment.
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