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That’s about double the speed that current commercial airliners fly.
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
If successful, Overture could become the first commercial supersonic airliner since the Concorde, a Mach 2 aircraft developed in the 1960s by the British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Sud Aviation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
The plane could carry up to 80 passengers at the speed of sound, about twice the speed of today's airliners.
—Joann Muller, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
If successful, Overture could become the first commercial supersonic airliner since the Concorde, a Mach 2 aircraft developed in the 1960s by the British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Sud Aviation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025
The plane could carry up to 80 passengers at the speed of sound, about twice the speed of today's airliners.
—Joann Muller, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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