When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...

Local author Thomas Kohnstamm's new book, "Supersonic," is an intergenerational story that takes place in Seattle in the 19th ...

The XB-1 test flight was a unique event that will live on in the history books and has given travelers hope of a return to ...

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

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde after acing its 11th test and reaching 0.95 Mach at low altitudes.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, scientists have detected supersonic jetstream winds hurtling around the planet’s equator at astonishing speeds of ...

This was made possible by the Concorde: the only commercial supersonic passenger jet the world has ever seen. More than two decades after the world's only commercial supersonic passenger jet made ...

An international team of astronomers have now made an unexpected discovery: supersonic winds are raging on the planet. "Part of the atmosphere of this planet is moving towards us at a high ...

Supersonic winds on this exoplanet, designated WASP-127b, travel at a mind-bending 5.5 miles per second (9 kilometers per second). The speed of sound on Earth is roughly 0.21 miles per second (0. ...

While XB-1’s supersonic flight will last between 30 and 45 minutes, it will only fly at true supersonic speeds for about four minutesCredit: BoomSupersonic The supersonic plane, built by ...