Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world's fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first ...

The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed ... Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and ...

the maximum speed of a supersonic plane is partially determined by how aerodynamic it is. Careful design of the wings is also paramount. For the iconic and innovative commercial jet Concorde, the ...

In its first major update of the year, bosses confirmed the jet was able to reproduce "transonic" speeds of Mach 0.95 or 575 knots ... to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, in his ...

Former Concorde ... away from the landing strip. The plane is now decelerating and descending back to the runway in the Mojave Desert after its third surge into supersonic speed, where it hit ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet has successfully reached ... where Chuck Yeager became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947, in his Bell X-1 plane.

“But we’ll take it at any point.” Knots Landing followed Ted Shackelford's Gary Ewing and Van Ark's Valene Clements as they moved to Los Angeles for a fresh start, settling into a suburb ...

the speed of sound. The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its ...