American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and ...

However, the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 caused ... vast amounts of resources into developing a supersonic transport,” says Landis.

This Soviet supersonic transport aircraft (SST) was the initial and only of two SSTs in the world to enter commercial service in 1975. After passenger service was discontinued in 1978 due to a crash ...

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger ...

The Soviet Tu-144 never made a profit (and it ... subsonic jets did not usually have lie-flat seats in business class, making ...

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. Russian Tu-160 supersonic bombers (NATO reporting name of Blackjack) broke the world record for longest non-stop flight for this type of aircraft, Lieutenant-General ...

This is the topic of a documentary that recently aired on Channel 4 in the UK called Concorde: The Race for Supersonic, yet what is the evidence that the Soviet Tu-144 truly was just a Concorde ...

In the mid-1950s, the U.S. military realized it needed a better platform to track Soviet military movements ... began research on developing a supersonic transport. The result was Concorde ...

There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde ... was designed in the 1960s when it seemed like supersonic passenger transport was going to be the next big thing.