When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the ...

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 ...

Let's take a deep dive into the world of the fastest commercial planes of all time, exploring how the aviation industry ...

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

In the case of Pan Am and the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde SST, the hooning took place at nearly three times the speed of sound. And yet, it was seemingly all for nothing in the end. This is the ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

Of course, G-BOAD was not solely deployed on British Airways' supersonic route from London to Singapore via Bahrain, meaning that, as Concorde SST notes, any usage on other corridors resulted in a ...

Indeed, as Concorde SST notes, November 1956 saw the establishment of the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) in the UK "to study the possibility of building a supersonic airliner." The ...

Let us take a closer look at what has happened on this day over the years. On January 21, 1976, a historic moment in aviation unfolded as the first commercial Concorde flights took off simultaneously.

THE XB-1 'Son of Concorde' jet is expected to reach speeds faster than sound for roughly four minutes in an upcoming flight, its test pilot has revealed. And civilians on the ground will ...

The proposed idea here is that Concord, what has now become one of the biggest video game failures of all time, has scared Sony straight in terms of its live-service ambitions. Previously ...