The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this ...

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

Being limited to subsonic speed over land was a fatal disadvantage for Concorde. Boom aims to alleviate it (assuming the blanket supersonic ban will be rescinded or revised) by flying overland ...

Languages: English. Concorde's retirement in 2003 brought the curtain down on an age of supersonic passenger flights. Now, two decades later, Boom Supersonic is trying to revive that era.

But Boom’s test flight in January “proved that we could do something Concorde never did,” Scholl says: “to fly supersonic with no audible boom.” This means in addition to flying us from ...

The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a "Son of Concorde" – is America's first civil supersonic jet. To hit supersonic speeds, an airplane needs to travel at 768 miles per hour. Boom Supersonic is ...

Denver-based Boom Supersonic wants to revive Mach-speed travel with its Overture plane. Overture would feature improved efficiency, safety, and a quieter engine than Concorde. Boom's innovations ...

Boom has dubbed the capability “Boomless Cruise” and claims it will allow the company’s Overture—planned to be the first supersonic commercial airliner since Concorde, with room for 64 to ...

Boom Supersonic banks on its Overture and Symphony ... combinations haven't quite been quite right yet. Aircraft like the Concorde, for example, relied on brute force in its turbojet engines ...

Boom Supersonic announced Monday that its airliner could fly above Mach 1 without producing a sonic boom audible from the ground. As Concorde could only fly supersonic over water, this discovery ...

Boom Supersonic, the Colorado-based company that ... materials such as carbon fibre and would be more fuel-efficient than Concorde, said Scholl. Its engines would also be able to use sustainable ...