Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic ...

Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk - The aircraft developed by Boom ...

if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” 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 ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier ...

If NASA’s bet on its newest X-plane pays off, the long-nosed aircraft could revolutionize commercial aviation. That is, if ...

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We went over the North Sea and down to the Bay of Biscay. It was very exciting." The world's media, with camera crews from as far afield as Japan and the Caribbean, watched as Concorde took off.

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for ...

The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but a landmark moment is set to happen on.

It was at this point in time that a catalog of different factors prompted Concorde's retirement (such as aviation's post-9/11 struggles, increased costs, and the crash of Air France flight 4590), with ...

Sonic booms effectively killed the elegant Concorde supersonic airliner in the ... The design includes a long, sharp nose and additional lifting surfaces to stretch out the air-compression region ...