Of all the factors that killed off Concorde more than two decades ago, it was the jet’s thunderclap-loud sonic boom that ...

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

Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...

NASA’s Quesst Mission aims to develop a new supersonic jet that produces quiet sonic booms, allowing for faster-than-sound ...

A small prototype jet ... of supersonic travel, halving some commercial journey times. The era of supersonic commercial flying "came to an abrupt end" in 2003 with the retirement of Concorde ...

The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a "Son of Concorde" – is America's first civil supersonic jet. To hit supersonic speeds, an airplane needs to travel at 768 miles per hour. Boom Supersonic is ...

Having been withdrawn from service after a devastating Air France Concorde crash, three decades of supersonic flight ended in October, 2003, with a farewell flight that took in Birmingham, Cardiff, ...

A US aerospace company has announced major progress on its Concorde-like service, a sleek new XB-1 jet. Boom Supersonic confirmed ... impacted by the tragic crash of an Air France Concorde in ...

Having been withdrawn from service after a devastating Air France Concorde crash, three decades of supersonic flight ended in October, 2003, with a farewell flight that took in Birmingham ...

TRUMP has shown off designs for the "Son of Concorde" supersonic jet, as the firm behind it readies to run ultra-fast flights from London to New York. The President beamed as he posed with a ...