Read More A boon for Boeing? Virgin Galactic strikes deal with NASA to work on supersonic rocket travel Virgin Galactic says it’s signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to collaborate on the ...

China's aviation firm Comac has been enjoying some good news lately, including the ability to announce the C949 supersonic ...

Boeing Wanted To Challenge The Concorde With The 2707 Boeing's 2707 concept was a supersonic transport (SST) that would have flown faster than the popular Concord while carrying more passengers ...

America currently remains ahead of China when it comes to airplanes that can fly faster than the speed of sound, according to ...

Beijing knows that it needs to take over commercial aviation. Supersonic flight is key to that.

Sonic booms, fuel cost spikes, and ozone depletion were not political issues in 1963, when President John Kennedy promised to subsidize development of an American supersonic transport. Boeing ...

Boeing was competing for a supersonic transport contract in 1965, at about the same time the 747 was conceived, and Pan Am founder and chairman Juan Trippe believed that the big subsonic jets ...

After the L-2000 lost to Boeing so many decades ago, it might be Lockheed that has the last laugh in the race towards supersonic flight for airliners.

After 53 years of non-stop production, aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced the completion ... on speed via the now phased-out Concorde of supersonic capabilities. “For more than half a ...