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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A prototype of a passenger jet meant to succeed Concorde will ... and the test plane should reach a cruising speed of Mach 1.1 in two specially designated supersonic corridors close to Edwards ...

The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London to New York in under three hours before it was retired in 2003. The Concorde was ...

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 ...

The return of supersonic ... plane already has 130 orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines and Japan Airlines. It's now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde ...