the supersonic passenger jet Concorde flew for the last time Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane.

An Overture “Superfactory” in North Carolina was completed in June 2024 and plans to produce 33 of the supersonic aircraft annually. Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic ... delta-wing Concorde guzzled four times as much fuel and carried only one-fifth as many passengers — around 100. The plane was also ...

An Overture “Superfactory” in North Carolina was completed in June 2024 and plans to produce 33 of the supersonic aircraft annually. Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways ...

A supersonic ... X-1 plane in 1947. On the ground, the team will include Boom’s chief test flight engineer Nick Sheryka, advisor Greg Krauland, and Mike Bannister, the former chief Concorde ...

in his Bell X-1 plane. “Even people who have flown supersonic hundreds of times never stop getting excited about it,” Bannister, who has clocked nearly 7,000 supersonic hours in the Concorde ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

This [aircraft] builds on decades of progress since the last time we built a supersonic jet,” he added, noting that both Boeing and Airbus haven’t built a new plane for 20 years. The Concorde, retired ...

But Concorde's long, pointed nose had a hinge. As the plane took off, landed, and taxied, the pilots tilted its nose forward so that they could see the runway. For supersonic flight, the nose was ...

THE 'Son of Concorde' XB-1 jet is set to take off on its inaugural supersonic flight today ... delayed at any moment due to the weather. Chase plane T-38 is set to follow the XB-1 so that viewers ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will attempt to break the sound barrier ... The flight is expected to last between 30 and 45 minutes, according to Boom, and the test plane ...