supersonic jet

Sir David started the company in April 1973, originally to develop a precision measuring tool for use on the Concorde supersonic jet.

The supersonic jet will travel by barge up the Hudson River and will be lifted by a crane onto Pier 86, the officials at the decommissioned aircraft carrier turned museum said in a news release.

Airline orders were slowing and costs for the 747 and the supersonic jet, which the company would abandon in 1971, were soaring.

But even then, many people within Boeing were expecting the 747 to soon be supplanted by a supersonic jet the company was developing.

Sir Morien Morgan from Bridgend, "Father of Concorde", was the chief engineer of the project, whilst Brian Trubshaw of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, was the first British pilot to fly the supersonic jet.