THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet is set to take off on its inaugural supersonic flight today, where it will break the sound barrier for the first time. Bosses at Colorado-based Boom Technology ...

The return of supersonic ... supersonic jet built in America and the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet. It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first ...

There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France from 1976 to 2003. Concorde had a capacity of up to 128 ...

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 ...

A supersonic jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled faster than the speed of sound for the first time. The XB-1 demonstrator aircraft took off from the Mojave Air & Space ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound barrier – and its first supersonic test flight takes off today (28 ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier for the first time on Tuesday. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator is set to exceed Mach 1 (770 mph) in ...

A supersonic passenger jet dubbed the ‘New Concorde’ travelled faster than the speed of sound for the first time during a test flight today. Some 34,000ft above California’s Mojave Desert ...