Concorde was supposed to revolutionize air travel, cutting flight times in half and making supersonic travel the norm. Instead, rising fuel costs, noise complaints, and sky-high operating expenses led ...

Driven by Cold War rivalry, the Soviet Union’s rush to build the Tu-144 set records and raised eyebrows. This is the story of ...

The first dreams of supersonic air travel were crushed by annoyed Oklahoma City residents in the 1960s. Decades later, it ...

Boom Supersonic's goal is to design and manufacture a supersonic airliner, which it calls Overture. [Courtesy: Boom Supersonic] Blake Scholl’s is a familiar Silicon Valley story. He graduated ...

The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument, France’s culture minister said Monday. Concorde 001, which was the first of the 20 aircraft built and ...

Chinese media reported that the C949 would have a 50 per cent range boost over the retired Concorde and fly with a noise level like a blowing hairdryer. China has entered the race to usher in a ...

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.

The eyes of the world were on Concorde as it darted at supersonic speed from London to New York on a Live Aid mission to deliver Phil Collins for a record-breaking performance spanning two ...

It's now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It's the first step in Boom's ambitious goal to have supersonic ...

and by the 1970s we had supersonic passenger flight. There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France ...

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

The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London to New York in under three hours before it was retired in 2003. The Concorde was ...