essentially, the US wanted a Concorde killer that would have dominated the 500 SST market and cemented American dominance in aerospace for decades to come. NASA to study "city-killer" asteroid as ...

Similar to a delta wing, the Soviet-developed Tu-144 incorporated special retractable foreplanes (canards) to improve lift ...

Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French ...