And for readers of Executive Traveller, a must-do would be visiting the Concorde at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, on the west side of Manhattan and overlooking ... By way of example, here’s a ...

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 ...

More than 20 years after the Concorde made its final flight, a new jet has smashed the sound barrier as it charts a course towards commercial supersonic flights by the end of the decade ... There’ll ...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator is set to exceed Mach 1 (770 mph) - X @bscholl ...

A supersonic jet nicknamed the 'Son of the Concorde' has officially traveled faster than the speed of sound for the first time. The XB-1 demonstrator aircraft took off from the Mojave Air & Space ...

Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28, 2025, it became the first commercial-type aircraft to fly supersonic since the Concorde in 2003. Today, for the first time since Concorde was ...

Impact Link Boom Supersonic just became the first US commercial ... Overture could be less costly than the Concorde Overture could revive the Concorde era and connect places like New York and ...

The return of supersonic ... Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots’ view of the runway.

There was the little-known Russian Tupolev-144 and Concorde, a Franco-British supersonic airliner operated by British Airways and Air France from 1976 to 2003. Concorde had a capacity of up to 128 ...