Supersonic commercial travel became a reality after Concorde began flights with British Airways and Air France in January ...

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...

Fresh from the successful completion of its XB-1 flight test campaign earlier this year, TIM ROBINSON FRAeS talks to Boom ...

NASA researchers have been using a tiny aircraft dubbed “Son of Concorde” in trials to assess the impact of supersonic ...

A ‘son of Concorde’ that could New York to London in under four hours is a step closer to take-off. NASA’s X-59 quiet ...

Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 cruised at Mach 2 at 60,000 feet, where their indicated airspeed was only 380 knots, but the friction of air heated their noses to 260 degrees Fahrenheit.

Overture is planned to fly at Mach 1.7, meaning it could go from Newark to London in three and a half hours. That's about half the time commercial airliners. It's still slightly slower than Concorde ...

Afterburners give fighter jets the ability achieve supersonic speeds. Meanwhile, supercruise means they can cruise at ...

On its ninth test and development flight, the XB-1 broke its own PR for altitude, achieving Mach 0.82 at 25,040 ft safely. ... (or Concorde 2.0, as we like to call it).

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. ... In 1996, Concorde set a speed record of just 2 hours, 52 minutes, ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed supersonic jet. The company is also working on a supersonic passenger ...