The Supersonic Aircraft Being Built By Boom And Backed By United Airlines Is Set To Be Avaliable For Passengers To Fly On By 2029

The America-Based airliner United Airlines has announced they will be bankrolling the creation of the Overture supersonic passenger plane being built in Denver, Colorado, by aircraft manufacture Boom.

United Airlines are optimistic that 15 of these Overture supersonic planes will be taking paying customers from New York to London in three hours by 2029, but the British have argued that the Concorde did a better job when it was in the sky.

The Aerospatiale/British Aircraft Corporation Concorde was the world's first, last, and only supersonic passenger plane to be used on a wide commercial scale, used by French, British, Zairian, American, and South African airliners from 1976 until the final Air France and British Airways operated Concordes were grounded for good in 2003.

During the height of Concorde Fever in the 1980s over 1.5 million flyers chose to ride the Concorde to and from destinations like New York, London, Paris, Kinshasa/Leopoldville, and Cape Town.

One iconic tale of the Concorde was during Live Aid in 1985, when Phil Collins performed at both concerts at the Empire Stadium in London, England, and the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the same afternoon by catching the Concorde at Heathrow Airport following his show in England and flying for 2.5 hours to JFK International Airport in New York and taking a bus to Philadelphia to perform at JFK Stadium. 

Due to mounting environmental pressure, rising operational costs, declining passenger base, 9/11, UV-Radiation concerns, and funding being pulled by the British and French governments, the Concorde took it's final Trans-Atlantic flight from JFK to Heathrow on the 24th of October 2003 in a swan song event which was televised by Fox News and the BBC.

With airlines trying to make speedier commutes from Trans-Atlantic and Pacific routes, some in the airline industry have lobbied the Concorde to be resurrected from the dead aircraft graveyard along with the DC-10 and MD-11 Tri-Jets of the same era, whilst companies like Boom have taken to building new supersonic aircraft more environmentally friendly and cheaper to operate than Concorde. 

If Overture will be better than Concorde is yet to be seen, as passengers and critics will have to wait seven years to fly on it.