EADS, the largest European aircraft company, is doing preliminary work on a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would take the place of the recently retired Concorde the planning includes collaboration with Japanese firms and Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3231354.stm However, its subsidiary Airbus' A380 'super-jumbo' sub-sonic vehicle is the product expected to become the dominant commercial aircraft in the near-future.
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