Today marks a special anniversary in the history of worldwide commercial aviation, with it now having been exactly 49 years since the legendary Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde entered ...
This comes 22 years after Concorde, the British-French supersonic airliner, retired in 2003. Boom has high ambitions, hoping to develop a supersonic commercial airliner which could become operational ...
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 ...
The aircraft, flown by Boom’s chief test pilot ... It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial ...
Since Concorde's retirement at the start of the century, supersonic flights fully disappeared from global air travel networks, with British Airways and Air France becoming the only two carriers to ...