Today a civil test airliner, Boom Technology’s XB-1, broke the sound barrier for the first time in two decades.

While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet is attempting to break the sound ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

Despite the immense excitement surrounding the delta-winged jet, only 14 production examples of the type were produced (along with six prototypes), with Air France and British Airways being its main ...

Indeed, as Concorde SST notes, November 1956 saw the establishment of the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) in the UK "to study the possibility of building a supersonic airliner." The ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde ... the feat since the British-French supersonic airliner ...

Let us take a closer look at what has happened on this day over the years. On January 21, 1976, a historic moment in aviation unfolded as the first commercial Concorde flights took off simultaneously.

Boom's dream of becoming a supersonic commercial airline is a step closer as its demonstrator model the XB-1 reached 844mph ...

The fastest ever commercial transatlantic flight was in 1996 when a British Airways Concorde flew from New York JFK to Heathrow in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds. It comes as millions of ...