New Super-plane: To Europe In Three Hours The airliner of the future. Britain and France sign a pact to finance a $300,000,000 super-sonic jet that will cross the Atlantic between breakfast and lunch! It will carry 100 passengers and fly 1,400 m.p.h. at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Model of super sonic jet. Representative from both countries sit down and sign pact. Men shaking hands.