A potential successor to Concorde made progress this week as US company Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype aircraft broke the sound barrier on Tuesday – the first time a civilian plane has done ...

Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than ... flights principally over the water. The Concorde was also a very loud plane at takeoff, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave ...

The Concorde was also a very loud plane at take off, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. A future for supersonic travel relies on solving some or all of the issues Concorde faced.

Boom Supersonic plans to build a supersonic airliner called ... non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It’s the first step in ...

The Concorde was also a very loud plane at take off, since it needed a lot of thrust to leave the ground. A future for supersonic travel relies on solving some or all of the issues Concorde faced.

Boom plans to start commercial operation ... Just over two decades later, in 1969, the first supersonic commercial airliner, the Concorde, took its first flight. That aircraft regularly traveled ...

Boasting a beautiful, slender-fuselage designed and built in America, the XB-1 is the very first civilian aircraft to fly supersonic above the United States continental landmass and the first civilian ...

(CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the ... military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003.