"Concorde proved you can fly a supersonic airplane with passengers on it half ... at a maximum Mach 1.7 — slower than Concorde's Mach 2.04. The company decided to build its own engine, which ...
Virgin Galactic’s private jet represents a very bold step toward making supersonic travel a reality for an elite few. Unlike ...
Today, the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, the turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner icon, first flew in 1969.
A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...
NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...
The XB-70 Valkyrie, a supersonic aircraft that was 50% faster than Concorde, could have flown from ... at altitudes as high as 60,000 feet at 2,000mph. After a U2 bomber went down over what ...
American company Boom Supersonic just broke the sound barrier with a civilian plane. What exactly is supersonic travel, and when can we expect it?
The plane had its first commercial flight on January 21, 1976, so was retired after 27 years of service and 50,000 flights. Several reasons led to the decision to retire Concorde. Air France and ...