“I often took the Concorde”: from Florida, Donald Trump dreams of supersonics and announces a show “bigger than Le Bourget”

Disavowed at the polls, the American president has decided to make Americans dream… with the French Concorde.

Friday October 6, three days after the victory of the Democratic Party in the mid-term elections, Donald Trump announced, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the creation, within two years, of the “largest air show on the planet”.

“USA” cap on his head, standing in front of an audience of industrialists and astronauts, the tenant of the White House promised that the future site, which would extend over 1,900 acres, or approximately 770 hectares, would attract hundreds of thousands of visitors, generating “billions of dollars” in economic benefits. Ultimate argument: “We are going to make a bigger, better, more grandiose version than the Paris Air Show,” he promised. The challenge is significant.

But Donald Trump sees further. After having promised, pell-mell, to restore American “leadership” in the fields of space exploration, supersonics…