But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the next phase is making it economically feasible. Right now, both subsonic and ...

The final Concorde to land was the celebrity-packed New York flight which touched down on the north runway at 4.05pm. It was proceeded by a Concorde from Edinburgh with competition winners on ...

The French Air Accident Investigation Bureau's (BEA) preliminary report included a transcript of a tape recording the last words spoken between Air France's 4590 Concorde pilots, mechanic and ...

Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft climbed ...

This means that Boom's vision for a far wider range of destinations is a lot more possible; potential routes include San ...

Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...

which was the first British Concorde in scheduled service in January 1976, made its final journey to the National Museum of Flight, where it is now on display. Concorde enabled passenger air ...

On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the last time. After revolutionising air travel for nearly 30 years, spiralling costs and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire.

But Boom’s test flight in January “proved that we could do something Concorde never did,” Scholl says: “to fly supersonic with no audible boom.” This means in addition to flying us from ...