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Graham Warwick
July 21, 2026
Credit: The Mach Initiative
Prize competitions have long played a role in advancing aviation, from the Daily Mail prize for the first flight across the English Channel won by Louis Blériot in 1908 to the Ansari X Prize for reusable private spaceflight won by SpaceShipOne in 2004. Now supersonic airliner startup Boom…
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