Aircraft maker Bombardier says it is close to finalizing assembly of the first Global 8000 business jet, the fastest civilian ...

Despite early hopes, supersonic civilian aircraft like the Concorde proved economically unsustainable: high fuel and maintenance costs, and too much noise compared with subsonic flight.

“You don’t hear a sonic boom from the cockpit because you ... The event positions Boom Supersonic to produce the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde was grounded in 2003.

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

China’s Comac is aiming to redefine supersonic travel with its C949 airliner, a 1.6-Mach design promising greater range and significantly reduced noise compared to the Concorde. Comac engineers have ...

Boom Supersonic CEO and Founder, Blake Scholl, has claimed that China has “entered the race” as plans for a COMAC supersonic ...

This means that Boom's vision for a far wider range of destinations is a lot more possible. Potential routes include San Francisco to Tokyo, which could be made in six hours, and Newark, New Jersey, ...

China has gone up against the US in an aerospace race as its state-owned aircraft manufacturer unveils blueprints for a new supersonic jet that can fly further and more quietly than Concorde.

On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the ... and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire. Since then, the return of supersonic flight has been a pipe dream; its glamour ...