Innovation in commercial aviation has been stuck for 60 years. A commercial supersonic jet might be back on the market soon, but will China get there first?

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Chinese aerospace firm Comac has supersonic flight in its sight and has published plans of a proposed jet called the C949. It ...

Beijing knows that it needs to take over commercial aviation. Supersonic flight is key to that.

The aircraft will be equipped with an artificial intelligence system to control this process. COMAC was founded in 2008 at the initiative of the Chinese government and is currently under US sanctions.

Chinese media reported that the C949 would have a 50 per cent range boost over the retired Concorde and fly with a noise ...